From: HarshaVardhana S A Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 12:22:54 +0000 (+0200) Subject: vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=223e2288f4b8c262a864e2c03964ffac91744cd5;p=linux-2.6-block.git vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it In vmci_transport_packet_init memset the vmci_transport_packet before populating the fields to avoid any uninitialised data being left in the structure. Cc: Bryan Tan Cc: Vishnu Dasa Cc: Broadcom internal kernel review list Cc: Stefano Garzarella Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Simon Horman Cc: virtualization@lists.linux.dev Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable Signed-off-by: HarshaVardhana S A Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Fixes: d021c344051a ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets") Acked-by: Stefano Garzarella Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250701122254.2397440-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni --- diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c index b370070194fa..7eccd6708d66 100644 --- a/net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c @@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ vmci_transport_packet_init(struct vmci_transport_packet *pkt, u16 proto, struct vmci_handle handle) { + memset(pkt, 0, sizeof(*pkt)); + /* We register the stream control handler as an any cid handle so we * must always send from a source address of VMADDR_CID_ANY */ @@ -131,8 +133,6 @@ vmci_transport_packet_init(struct vmci_transport_packet *pkt, pkt->type = type; pkt->src_port = src->svm_port; pkt->dst_port = dst->svm_port; - memset(&pkt->proto, 0, sizeof(pkt->proto)); - memset(&pkt->_reserved2, 0, sizeof(pkt->_reserved2)); switch (pkt->type) { case VMCI_TRANSPORT_PACKET_TYPE_INVALID: