[PATCH] tcp_ipv6: fix use of uninitialized memory

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Tue Sep 09 2008 - 01:17:32 EST


inet6_rsk() is called on a struct request_sock * before we
have checked whether the socket is an ipv6 socket or a ipv6-
mapped ipv4 socket. The access that triggers this is the
inet_rsk(rsk)->inet6_rsk_offset dereference in inet6_rsk().

This is arguably not a critical error as the inet6_rsk_offset
is only used to compute a pointer which is never really used
(in the code path in question) anyway. But it might be a
latent error, so let's fix it.

Spotted by kmemcheck.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index 5b90b36..c9b6c13 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -1286,7 +1286,7 @@ static struct sock * tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
struct request_sock *req,
struct dst_entry *dst)
{
- struct inet6_request_sock *treq = inet6_rsk(req);
+ struct inet6_request_sock *treq;
struct ipv6_pinfo *newnp, *np = inet6_sk(sk);
struct tcp6_sock *newtcp6sk;
struct inet_sock *newinet;
@@ -1350,6 +1350,7 @@ static struct sock * tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
return newsk;
}

+ treq = inet6_rsk(req);
opt = np->opt;

if (sk_acceptq_is_full(sk))
--
1.5.5.1

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