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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2013-05-17 04:53:13 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-06-27 11:27:31 -0700
commit32d704a1a1d8c0fc6552c269a911a03621065cd9 (patch)
tree68fde5a96f1703df5985acf047a989de21b8e324 /net
parentc76631940b5c893dbca8b504b1cbb5b970267dc8 (diff)
ipv6: fix possible crashes in ip6_cork_release()
[ Upstream commit 284041ef21fdf2e0d216ab6b787bc9072b4eb58a ] commit 0178b695fd6b4 ("ipv6: Copy cork options in ip6_append_data") added some code duplication and bad error recovery, leading to potential crash in ip6_cork_release() as kfree() could be called with garbage. use kzalloc() to make sure this wont happen. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_output.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index ce661baa60cb..bf290ce6341c 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ int ip6_append_data(struct sock *sk, int getfrag(void *from, char *to,
if (WARN_ON(np->cork.opt))
return -EINVAL;
- np->cork.opt = kmalloc(opt->tot_len, sk->sk_allocation);
+ np->cork.opt = kzalloc(opt->tot_len, sk->sk_allocation);
if (unlikely(np->cork.opt == NULL))
return -ENOBUFS;