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Willem de Bruijn ffa2be496e net: do not write to msg_get_inq in callee 
commit 7d11e047ed upstream.

NULL pointer dereference fix.

msg_get_inq is an input field from caller to callee. Don't set it in
the callee, as the caller may not clear it on struct reuse.

This is a kernel-internal variant of msghdr only, and the only user
does reinitialize the field. So this is not critical for that reason.
But it is more robust to avoid the write, and slightly simpler code.
And it fixes a bug, see below.

Callers set msg_get_inq to request the input queue length to be
returned in msg_inq. This is equivalent to but independent from the
SO_INQ request to return that same info as a cmsg (tp->recvmsg_inq).
To reduce branching in the hot path the second also sets the msg_inq.
That is WAI.

This is a fix to commit 4d1442979e ("af_unix: don't post cmsg for
SO_INQ unless explicitly asked for"), which fixed the inverse.

Also avoid NULL pointer dereference in unix_stream_read_generic if
state->msg is NULL and msg->msg_get_inq is written. A NULL state->msg
can happen when splicing as of commit 2b514574f7 ("net: af_unix:
implement splice for stream af_unix sockets").

Also collapse two branches using a bitwise or.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4d1442979e ("af_unix: don't post cmsg for SO_INQ unless explicitly asked for")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/willemdebruijn.kernel.24d8030f7a3de@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106150626.3944363-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2026-01-17 16:35:11 +01:00
arch LoongArch: BPF: Enhance the bpf_arch_text_poke() function 2026-01-08 10:17:21 +01:00
block block: fix NULL pointer dereference in blk_zone_reset_all_bio_endio() 2026-01-08 10:17:21 +01:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: seqiv - Do not use req->iv after crypto_aead_encrypt 2026-01-08 10:16:43 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: PCI: qcom,pcie-sm8550: Add missing required power-domains and resets 2026-01-02 12:57:27 +01:00
drivers net: 3com: 3c59x: fix possible null dereference in vortex_probe1() 2026-01-17 16:35:11 +01:00
fs NFSD: Remove NFSERR_EAGAIN 2026-01-17 16:35:10 +01:00
include NFSD: Remove NFSERR_EAGAIN 2026-01-17 16:35:10 +01:00
init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/rsrc: fix lost entries after cloned range 2026-01-02 12:57:30 +01:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance 2026-01-11 15:26:19 +01:00
lib idr: fix idr_alloc() returning an ID out of range 2026-01-08 10:17:10 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: handle alloc failures on damon_test_split_regions_of() 2026-01-08 10:17:21 +01:00
net net: do not write to msg_get_inq in callee 2026-01-17 16:35:11 +01:00
rust rust: maple_tree: rcu_read_lock() in destructor to silence lockdep 2026-01-08 10:17:11 +01:00
samples samples/ftrace: Adjust LoongArch register restore order in direct calls 2026-01-08 10:17:11 +01:00
scripts mcb: Add missing modpost build support 2026-01-08 10:16:47 +01:00
security kernel/kexec: change the prototype of kimage_map_segment() 2026-01-08 10:17:10 +01:00
sound ASoC: qcom: qdsp6: q6asm-dai: set 10 ms period and buffer alignment. 2026-01-08 10:16:54 +01:00
tools selftests/mm: fix thread state check in uffd-unit-tests 2026-01-08 10:17:11 +01:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt KVM: Fix last_boosted_vcpu index assignment bug 2026-01-02 12:57:21 +01:00
.clang-format memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from() 2025-09-14 08:49:03 +03:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
.mailmap 8 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable, 7 are against mm/. 2025-11-26 12:38:05 -08:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: mark ISDN subsystem as orphan 2025-10-27 17:49:45 -07:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS soc: fixes for 6.18, part 4 2025-11-28 09:57:31 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.18.5 2026-01-11 15:26:20 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.