[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "af_key: initialize satype in key_notify_policy_flush()" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Aug 16 09:31:23 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    af_key: initialize satype in key_notify_policy_flush()

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 9ebd50b0acfe0d7a1218d6e108cfabb66424303a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel at 6wind.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:24:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] af_key: initialize satype in key_notify_policy_flush()

commit 85dfb745ee40232876663ae206cba35f24ab2a40 upstream.

This field was left uninitialized. Some user daemons perform check against this
field.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel at 6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert at secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/key/af_key.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/key/af_key.c b/net/key/af_key.c
index 7dcb525..b606ce5 100644
--- a/net/key/af_key.c
+++ b/net/key/af_key.c
@@ -2687,6 +2687,7 @@ static int key_notify_policy_flush(const struct km_event *c)
 	hdr->sadb_msg_pid = c->pid;
 	hdr->sadb_msg_version = PF_KEY_V2;
 	hdr->sadb_msg_errno = (uint8_t) 0;
+	hdr->sadb_msg_satype = SADB_SATYPE_UNSPEC;
 	hdr->sadb_msg_len = (sizeof(struct sadb_msg) / sizeof(uint64_t));
 	hdr->sadb_msg_reserved = 0;
 	pfkey_broadcast(skb_out, GFP_ATOMIC, BROADCAST_ALL, NULL, c->net);
--
1.8.3.2





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