[PATCH] [BZ 17542] sunrpc: conditional jump depends on uninitialised value in svc_getreq_common

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 02:06:45PM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:26:26AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > We should first understand what is the real bug.
> 
> The real bug is in the calling application, which calls svc_getreq on
> a file descriptor that it did not register.  We're patching this in
> sunrpc so that the check in svc_getreq_common below that was supposed
> to catch such conditions actually works.
> 
> ...
>   xprt = xports[fd];
>   /* Do we control fd? */
>   if (xprt == NULL)
>      return;
> ...

Andreas, is this OK or are you still not convinced about adding this
patch in?

Siddhesh
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