[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 248/254] IB/core: Clear AH attr variable to prevent garbage data

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Nov 25 10:39:58 UTC 2014


3.16.7-ckt2 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma at emulex.com>

commit 8b0f93d9490653a7b9fc91f3570089132faed1c0 upstream.

During create-ah from userspace, uverbs is sending garbage data in
attr.dmac and attr.vlan_id.  This patch sets attr.dmac and
attr.vlan_id to zero.

Fixes: dd5f03beb4f7 ("IB/core: Ethernet L2 attributes in verbs/cm structures")
Signed-off-by: Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma at emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland at purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
index ea6203ee7bcc..23467a2abd62 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
@@ -2425,6 +2425,8 @@ ssize_t ib_uverbs_create_ah(struct ib_uverbs_file *file,
 	attr.grh.sgid_index    = cmd.attr.grh.sgid_index;
 	attr.grh.hop_limit     = cmd.attr.grh.hop_limit;
 	attr.grh.traffic_class = cmd.attr.grh.traffic_class;
+	attr.vlan_id           = 0;
+	memset(&attr.dmac, 0, sizeof(attr.dmac));
 	memcpy(attr.grh.dgid.raw, cmd.attr.grh.dgid, 16);
 
 	ah = ib_create_ah(pd, &attr);
-- 
2.1.0





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