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Commit 89a3c9f5 authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by Anna Schumaker
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SUNRPC: Properly set the @subbuf parameter of xdr_buf_subsegment()



@subbuf is an output parameter of xdr_buf_subsegment(). A survey of
call sites shows that @subbuf is always uninitialized before
xdr_buf_segment() is invoked by callers.

There are some execution paths through xdr_buf_subsegment() that do
not set all of the fields in @subbuf, leaving some pointer fields
containing garbage addresses. Subsequent processing of that buffer
then results in a page fault.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
parent d03727b2
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