From: HarshaVardhana S A 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 --- Tweaked from original version by rewording the text and adding a blank line and correctly sending it to the proper people for inclusion in net. net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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: -- 2.50.0