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[PATCH v2] net: initialize msg.msg_flags in recvfrom

From Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH v2] net: initialize msg.msg_flags in recvfrom
Date 2017-03-08 18:20 +0100
Message-ID <tiNpM-1c7-21@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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KMSAN reports a use of uninitialized memory in put_cmsg() because
msg.msg_flags in recvfrom haven't been initialized properly.
The flag values don't affect the result on this path, but it's still a
good idea to initialize them explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
---
Changes since v1:
 - removed KMSAN report and reproducer from the description
---
 net/socket.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 2c1e8677ff2d..e0757e648c0c 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1731,6 +1731,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(recvfrom, int, fd, void __user *, ubuf, size_t, size,
 	/* We assume all kernel code knows the size of sockaddr_storage */
 	msg.msg_namelen = 0;
 	msg.msg_iocb = NULL;
+	msg.msg_flags = 0;
 	if (sock->file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
 		flags |= MSG_DONTWAIT;
 	err = sock_recvmsg(sock, &msg, flags);
-- 
2.12.0.246.ga2ecc84866-goog

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[PATCH v2] net: initialize msg.msg_flags in recvfrom Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> - 2017-03-08 18:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] net: initialize msg.msg_flags in recvfrom David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-03-10 02:30 +0100

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