linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.8 228/464] bpfilter: Initialize pos variable

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Message-Id: <20200817143844.721217491@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:13:01 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.8 228/464] bpfilter: Initialize pos variable

From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>

[ Upstream commit a4fa458950b40d3849946daa32466392811a3716 ]

Make sure 'pos' is initialized to zero before calling kernel_write().

Fixes: d2ba09c17a06 ("net: add skeleton of bpfilter kernel module")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c b/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c
index 4494ea6056cdb..42b88a92afe95 100644
--- a/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c
+++ b/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ static int __bpfilter_process_sockopt(struct sock *sk, int optname,
 	req.len = optlen;
 	if (!bpfilter_ops.info.pid)
 		goto out;
+	pos = 0;
 	n = kernel_write(bpfilter_ops.info.pipe_to_umh, &req, sizeof(req),
 			   &pos);
 	if (n != sizeof(req)) {
-- 
2.25.1