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  r80612 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-04-29 12:11:46 +0200 (jeu., 29 avril 2010) | 10 lines

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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 c5ecfa2..e254d34 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 David Abrahams
 Jim Ahlstrom
 Farhan Ahmad
+Yaniv Aknin
 Jyrki Alakuijala
 Billy G. Allie
 Kevin Altis
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 55f4e7a..0e45fef 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
+  of the Linux kernel.  Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
+
 - Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
   It should correctly return an empty response now.
 
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index 1a45c53..636571c 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))) {