From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 02:00:54 +0300

> This code causes a static checker warning because Smatch doesn't trust
> anything that comes from skb->data.  I've reviewed this code and I do
> think skb->data can be controlled by the user here.
> 
> The sctp_event_subscribe struct has 13 __u8 fields and we want to see
> if ours is non-zero.  sn_type can be any value in the 0-USHRT_MAX range.
> We're subtracting SCTP_SN_TYPE_BASE which is 1 << 15 so we could read
> either before the start of the struct or after the end.
> 
> This is a very old bug and it's surprising that it would go undetected
> for so long but my theory is that it just doesn't have a big impact so
> it would be hard to notice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
> ---
> v2:  Use reverse-christmas-tree local variable ordering.

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

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