netdev - Re: [PATCH] ping: prevent NULL pointer dereference on write to msg

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Date:	Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:02:38 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ping: prevent NULL pointer dereference on write to
 msg_name

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:07:45 +0100

> A plain read() on a socket does set msg->msg_name to NULL. So check for
> NULL pointer first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> ---
> 
> Addendum to "[v4] inet: prevent leakage of uninitialized memory to user in
> recv syscalls".

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Hannes.

Looks like ipv6 got this case right.
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