When sysctl performs restrict writes, it allows to write from
a middle position of a sysctl file, which requires us to initialize
the table data before calling proc_dostring() for the write case.

Fixes: 3d1bec99320d ("ipv6: introduce secret_stable to ipv6_devconf")
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 17f8e7e..1f21087 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -5369,13 +5369,10 @@ static int addrconf_sysctl_stable_secret(struct 
ctl_table *ctl, int write,
                goto out;
        }
 
-       if (!write) {
-               err = snprintf(str, sizeof(str), "%pI6",
-                              &secret->secret);
-               if (err >= sizeof(str)) {
-                       err = -EIO;
-                       goto out;
-               }
+       err = snprintf(str, sizeof(str), "%pI6", &secret->secret);
+       if (err >= sizeof(str)) {
+               err = -EIO;
+               goto out;
        }
 
        err = proc_dostring(&lctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
-- 
1.8.3.1

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