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  r80610 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-04-29 12:05:40 +0200 (jeu., 29 avril 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
  of the Linux kernel.  Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
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diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 830d582..7a7d879 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 Jim Ahlstrom
 Farhan Ahmad
 Nir Aides
+Yaniv Aknin
 Jyrki Alakuijala
 Billy G. Allie
 Kevin Altis
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 90638ec..b3be6e9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -339,6 +339,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
+  of the Linux kernel.  Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
+
 - Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
 
 - Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index 9dade1d..085d585 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -1290,6 +1290,7 @@
 			char *straddr;
 
 			addr = (struct sockaddr_l2 *)addr_ret;
+			memset(addr, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_l2));
 			_BT_L2_MEMB(addr, family) = AF_BLUETOOTH;
 			if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "si", &straddr,
 					      &_BT_L2_MEMB(addr, psm))) {