[PATCH net-next 1/4] rxrpc: Create an address for sendmsg() to bind unbound socket with [ver #2]

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Sep 14 16:06:07 PDT 2016


Create an address for sendmsg() to bind unbound socket with rather than
using a completely blank address otherwise the transport socket creation
will fail because it will try to use address family 0.

We use the address family specified in the protocol argument when the
AF_RXRPC socket was created and SOCK_DGRAM as the default.  For anything
else, bind() must be used.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
---

 net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
index 25d00ded24bc..741b0d8d2e8c 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
@@ -401,6 +401,18 @@ static int rxrpc_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *m, size_t len)
 
 	switch (rx->sk.sk_state) {
 	case RXRPC_UNBOUND:
+		rx->srx.srx_family = AF_RXRPC;
+		rx->srx.srx_service = 0;
+		rx->srx.transport_type = SOCK_DGRAM;
+		rx->srx.transport.family = rx->family;
+		switch (rx->family) {
+		case AF_INET:
+			rx->srx.transport_len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
+			break;
+		default:
+			ret = -EAFNOSUPPORT;
+			goto error_unlock;
+		}
 		local = rxrpc_lookup_local(&rx->srx);
 		if (IS_ERR(local)) {
 			ret = PTR_ERR(local);




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