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VSOCK: Fix missing msg_namelen update in vsock_stream_recvmsg()

The code misses to update the msg_namelen member to 0 and therefore
makes net/socket.c leak the local, uninitialized sockaddr_storage
variable to userland -- 128 bytes of kernel stack memory.

Cc: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mathias Krause 12 years ago
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      net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c

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net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c

@@ -1670,6 +1670,8 @@ vsock_stream_recvmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb,
 	vsk = vsock_sk(sk);
 	err = 0;
 
+	msg->msg_namelen = 0;
+
 	lock_sock(sk);
 
 	if (sk->sk_state != SS_CONNECTED) {