netdev - [PATCH] net: fix uninitialized variable issue

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Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:46:17 -0800
From:	Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	tadeusz.struk@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	freude@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: fix uninitialized variable issue

msg_iocb needs to be initialized on the recv/recvfrom path.
Otherwise afalg will wrongly interpret it as an async call.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Reported-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>
---
 net/socket.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index dd2c247..80ca820 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1702,6 +1702,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(recvfrom, int, fd, void __user *, ubuf, size_t, size,
 	msg.msg_name = addr ? (struct sockaddr *)&address : NULL;
 	/* We assume all kernel code knows the size of sockaddr_storage */
 	msg.msg_namelen = 0;
+	msg.msg_iocb = NULL;
 	if (sock->file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
 		flags |= MSG_DONTWAIT;
 	err = sock_recvmsg(sock, &msg, iov_iter_count(&msg.msg_iter), flags);

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