Re: [PATCH] net sched: text ematch: zero out ts_state before using it

From: Omar Sandoval
Date: Thu Oct 09 2014 - 12:28:42 EST


On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 09:05:21AM -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> textsearch_find zeroes out the offset, but the control buffer (which may or may
> not matter in this case) needs to be zeroed out as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/sched/em_text.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/sched/em_text.c b/net/sched/em_text.c
> index 15d353d..2a1b6d9 100644
> --- a/net/sched/em_text.c
> +++ b/net/sched/em_text.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ static int em_text_match(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tcf_ematch *m,
> int from, to;
> struct ts_state state;
>
> + memset(&state, 0, sizeof(state));
> +
> from = tcf_get_base_ptr(skb, tm->from_layer) - skb->data;
> from += tm->from_offset;
>
> --
> 2.1.2
>

I forgot to mention: this patch is against 3.17.

--
Omar
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