[PATCH] uml: make daemon transport behave properly
Avoid uninitialized data in the daemon_data structure. I used this transport
before doing proper setup before-hand, and I got some very nice SLAB
corruption due to freeing crap pointers. So just make sure to clear
everything when appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/daemon_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/daemon_kern.c
index 30d285b..507e3cb 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/daemon_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/daemon_kern.c
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
dpri->fd = -1;
dpri->control = -1;
dpri->dev = dev;
+ /* We will free this pointer. If it contains crap we're burned. */
+ dpri->ctl_addr = NULL;
+ dpri->data_addr = NULL;
+ dpri->local_addr = NULL;
printk("daemon backend (uml_switch version %d) - %s:%s",
SWITCH_VERSION, dpri->sock_type, dpri->ctl_sock);