SUNRPC: Properly initialize sock_xprt.srcaddr in all cases
The source address field in the transport's sock_xprt is initialized ONLY IF the RPC application passed a pointer to a source address during the call to rpc_create(). However, xs_bind() subsequently uses the value of this field without regard to whether the source address was initialized during transport creation or not. So far we've been lucky: the uninitialized value of this field is zeroes. xs_bind(), until recently, used only the sin[6]_addr field in this sockaddr, and all zeroes is a valid value for this: it means ANYADDR. This is a happy coincidence. However, xs_bind() now wants to use the sa_family field as well, and expects it to be initialized to something other than zero. Therefore, the source address sockaddr field should be fully initialized at transport create time in _every_ case, not just when the RPC application wants to use a specific bind address. Bruce added a workaround for this missing initialization by adjusting commit 6bc9638a, but the "right" way to do this is to ensure that the source address sockaddr is always correctly initialized from the get-go. This patch doesn't introduce a behavior change. It's simply a clean-up of Bruce's fix, to prevent future problems of this kind. It may look like overkill, but a) it clearly documents the default initial value of this field, b) it doesn't assume that the sockaddr_storage memory is first initialized to any particular value, and c) it will fail verbosely if some unknown address family is passed in Originally introduced by commit d3bc9a1d. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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