From d0733d2e29b652b2e7b1438ececa732e4eed98eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:05:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] net/ipv4: Check for mistakenly passed in non-IPv4 address

Check against mistakenly passing in IPv6 addresses (which would result
in an INADDR_ANY bind) or similar incompatible sockaddrs.

Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Cc: Reinhard Max <max@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
index cc1463156cd0..9c1926027a26 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
@@ -465,6 +465,9 @@ int inet_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int addr_len)
 	if (addr_len < sizeof(struct sockaddr_in))
 		goto out;
 
+	if (addr->sin_family != AF_INET)
+		goto out;
+
 	chk_addr_ret = inet_addr_type(sock_net(sk), addr->sin_addr.s_addr);
 
 	/* Not specified by any standard per-se, however it breaks too
-- 
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