ipc: fix potential oops when src msg > 4k w/ MSG_COPY If the src msg is > 4k, then dest->next points to the next allocated segment; resetting it just prior to dereferencing is bad. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/ipc/msgutil.c b/ipc/msgutil.c index ebfcbfa..5df8e4b 100644 --- a/ipc/msgutil.c +++ b/ipc/msgutil.c
@@ -117,9 +117,6 @@ if (alen > DATALEN_MSG) alen = DATALEN_MSG; - dst->next = NULL; - dst->security = NULL; - memcpy(dst + 1, src + 1, alen); len -= alen;