Re: [PATCH net] vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jul 01 2025 - 08:56:53 EST
On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 02:42:10PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 02:22:54PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: HarshaVardhana S A <harshavardhana.sa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > In vmci_transport_packet_init memset the vmci_transport_packet before
> > populating the fields to avoid any uninitialised data being left in the
> > structure.
>
> Usually I would suggest inserting a Fixes tag, but if you didn't put it,
> there's probably a reason :-)
>
> If we are going to add it, I think it should be:
>
> Fixes: d021c344051a ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets")
Yeah, I didn't think it was needed as this is obviously a "ever since
this file has been there" type of thing, so it will be backported
everywhere once it hits Linus's tree.
thanks,
greg k-h