Commit 18a47e6d authored by Willem de Bruijn's avatar Willem de Bruijn Committed by David S. Miller

net-timestamp: fix allocation error in test

A buffer is incorrectly zeroed to the length of the pointer. If
cfg_payload_len < sizeof(void *) this can overwrites unrelated memory.
The buffer contents are never read, so no need to zero.

Fixes: 8fe2f761 ("net-timestamp: expand documentation")
Reported-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b1c84927
......@@ -192,7 +192,6 @@ static int recv_errmsg(int fd)
memset(&msg, 0, sizeof(msg));
memset(&entry, 0, sizeof(entry));
memset(ctrl, 0, sizeof(ctrl));
memset(data, 0, sizeof(data));
entry.iov_base = data;
entry.iov_len = cfg_payload_len;
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