This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: Fix references to out-of-scope variables in put_cmsg_compat()
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-fix-references-to-out-of-scope-variables-in-put_cmsg_compat.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 881ae72880363758105c4492c4d8bd435860d322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:37:20 +0000
Subject: net: Fix references to out-of-scope variables in put_cmsg_compat()
From: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 818810472b129004c16fc51bf0a570b60776bfb7 ]
In net/compat.c::put_cmsg_compat() we may assign 'data' the address of
either the 'ctv' or 'cts' local variables inside the 'if
(!COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME)' branch.
Those variables go out of scope at the end of the 'if' statement, so
when we use 'data' further down in 'copy_to_user(CMSG_COMPAT_DATA(cm),
data, cmlen - sizeof(struct compat_cmsghdr))' there's no telling what
it may be refering to - not good.
Fix the problem by simply giving 'ctv' and 'cts' function scope.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/compat.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/compat.c
+++ b/net/compat.c
@@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ int put_cmsg_compat(struct msghdr *kmsg,
{
struct compat_cmsghdr __user *cm = (struct compat_cmsghdr __user *)
kmsg->msg_control;
struct compat_cmsghdr cmhdr;
+ struct compat_timeval ctv;
+ struct compat_timespec cts[3];
int cmlen;
if (cm == NULL || kmsg->msg_controllen < sizeof(*cm)) {
@@ -229,8 +231,6 @@ int put_cmsg_compat(struct msghdr *kmsg,
}
if (!COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME) {
- struct compat_timeval ctv;
- struct compat_timespec cts[3];
if (level == SOL_SOCKET && type == SCM_TIMESTAMP) {
struct timeval *tv = (struct timeval *)data;
ctv.tv_sec = tv->tv_sec;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.4/net-fix-references-to-out-of-scope-variables-in-put_cmsg_compat.patch
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