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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2010-02-08 11:17:43 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-02-08 11:17:43 -0800
commit14c7dbe043d01a83a30633ab6b109ba2ac61d9f7 (patch)
tree0358b6f285036f64c5f5cd6aac4bd2b0768fee8e /net/ipv6
parent13ccdfc2af03e09e60791f7d4bc4ccf53398af7c (diff)
netfilter: xtables: compat out of scope fix
As per C99 6.2.4(2) when temporary table data goes out of scope, the behaviour is undefined: if (compat) { struct foo tmp; ... private = &tmp; } [dereference private] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
index 480d7f8c980..8a7e0f52e17 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
@@ -1164,10 +1164,10 @@ static int get_info(struct net *net, void __user *user, int *len, int compat)
if (t && !IS_ERR(t)) {
struct ip6t_getinfo info;
const struct xt_table_info *private = t->private;
-
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
+ struct xt_table_info tmp;
+
if (compat) {
- struct xt_table_info tmp;
ret = compat_table_info(private, &tmp);
xt_compat_flush_offsets(AF_INET6);
private = &tmp;