In rxrpc_new_client_call_for_sendmsg(), a key with no payload is meant to be substituted for a NULL key pointer, but the variable this is done with is subsequently not used. Fix this by using "key" rather than "rx->key" when filling in the connection parameters. Note that this only affects direct use of AF_RXRPC; the kAFS filesystem doesn't use sendmsg() directly and so bypasses the issue. Further, AF_RXRPC passes a NULL key in if no key is set, so using an anonymous key in that manner works. Since this hasn't been noticed to this point, it might be better just to remove the "key" variable and the code that sets it - and, arguably, rxrpc_init_client_call_security() would be a better place to handle it. Fixes: 19ffa01c9c45 ("rxrpc: Use structs to hold connection params and protocol info") Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260319150150.4189381-1-dhowells%40redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: Jeffrey Altman cc: Eric Dumazet cc: "David S. Miller" cc: Jakub Kicinski cc: Paolo Abeni cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org cc: stable@kernel.org --- net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c b/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c index 04f9c5f2dc24..c35de4fd75e3 100644 --- a/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c +++ b/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c @@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ rxrpc_new_client_call_for_sendmsg(struct rxrpc_sock *rx, struct msghdr *msg, memset(&cp, 0, sizeof(cp)); cp.local = rx->local; cp.peer = peer; - cp.key = rx->key; + cp.key = key; cp.security_level = rx->min_sec_level; cp.exclusive = rx->exclusive | p->exclusive; cp.upgrade = p->upgrade;