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Change subject: coverity CID#322728
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Patch Set 1:

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File src/stream.c:

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PS1, Line 282:  ret = sctp_recvmsg(fd, msg->tail, msgb_tailroom(msg), NULL, 
NULL, &sinfo, &flags);
> man sctp_recvmsg is a bit blurry on whether sinfo needs to be initialized, so 
> I think it's fine to b […]
I would assume that any such socket related call will not need 
zero-initialization of pure output arguments.  If it's an input, it needs 
initialization.  But it's exclusively a caller-allocated chunk of memory for 
output.

Lookig at the actual implementation at 
https://github.com/sctp/lksctp-tools/blob/master/src/lib/recvmsg.c - there is a 
code path in case recvmsg returns a non-error resposne but then no cmsg for 
SCTP_SNDRCV is found. In that case it's not initialized by sctp_recvmsg.  But 
then it is a kernel bug and zero-initialization is just plastering over it.  
Our code needs the sctp_sndrcvinfo to know which stream / PPID the message was 
received on.

So I think this change is "side-ways development" and not addressing the actual 
issue: There should probably be an ASSERT or soemthing in libsctp... I'll raise 
a bug there.



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