netdev - [PATCH 9/9] Bluetooth: Fix out of scope variable access in hci_sock

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Date:	Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:38:38 +0100
From:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 9/9] Bluetooth: Fix out of scope variable access in hci_sock_cmsg()

From: Johann Felix Soden <johfel@...rs.sourceforge.net>

The pointer data can point to the variable ctv.
Access to data happens when ctv is already out of scope.

Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden <johfel@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
---
 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c
index 688cfeb..b0e6108 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c
@@ -338,8 +338,8 @@ static inline void hci_sock_cmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, struct sk_
 		data = &tv;
 		len = sizeof(tv);
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
+		struct compat_timeval ctv;
 		if (msg->msg_flags & MSG_CMSG_COMPAT) {
-			struct compat_timeval ctv;
 			ctv.tv_sec = tv.tv_sec;
 			ctv.tv_usec = tv.tv_usec;
 			data = &ctv;
-- 
1.6.6

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