KMSAN (KernelMemorySanitizer, a new error detection tool) reports use of uninitialized memory in put_cmsg()):
================================================================== BUG: KMSAN: use of unitialized memory inter: 0 CPU: 3 PID: 1086 Comm: syz-executor0 Not tainted 4.8.0-rc6+ #1920 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 0000000000000000 ffff88008374fa48 ffffffff82576c18 ffff88008374f988 ffffffff818c06d1 ffffffff85bab870 0000000000000092 ffffffff85bab550 0000000000000000 0000000000000092 00000000f9600a55 0000000000000002 Call Trace: [< inline >] __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:15 [<ffffffff82576c18>] dump_stack+0x238/0x290 lib/dump_stack.c:51 [<ffffffff818beef6>] kmsan_report+0x276/0x2e0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:1006 [<ffffffff818c027b>] __msan_warning+0x6b/0xc0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:425 [<ffffffff842f01e7>] put_cmsg+0x6f7/0x850 net/core/scm.c:223 [< inline >] netlink_cmsg_recv_pktinfo net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1700 [<ffffffff844b7054>] netlink_recvmsg+0x8e4/0x1980 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1856 [< inline >] sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:711 [< inline >] sock_recvmsg net/socket.c:718 [<ffffffff8426c175>] SYSC_recvfrom+0x6e5/0xa00 net/socket.c:1695 [<ffffffff8426ba67>] SyS_recvfrom+0xb7/0xe0 net/socket.c:1668 [<ffffffff851840db>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x8f arch/x86/entry/entry_64.o:? chained origin: 00000000f8c00a55 [<ffffffff810bd4d7>] save_stack_trace+0x27/0x50 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:67 [< inline >] kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:322 [< inline >] kmsan_save_stack mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:337 [<ffffffff818be2cb>] kmsan_internal_chain_origin+0x12b/0x1f0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:530 [<ffffffff818bfc0f>] __kmsan_store_origin+0x9f/0x120 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:190 [<ffffffff844b6bdd>] netlink_recvmsg+0x46d/0x1980 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1839 [< inline >] sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:711 [< inline >] sock_recvmsg net/socket.c:718 [<ffffffff8426c175>] SYSC_recvfrom+0x6e5/0xa00 net/socket.c:1695 [<ffffffff8426ba67>] SyS_recvfrom+0xb7/0xe0 net/socket.c:1668 [<ffffffff851840db>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x8f arch/x86/entry/entry_64.o:? chained origin: 00000000b9a00a53 [<ffffffff810bd4d7>] save_stack_trace+0x27/0x50 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:67 [< inline >] kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:322 [< inline >] kmsan_save_stack mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:337 [<ffffffff818be2cb>] kmsan_internal_chain_origin+0x12b/0x1f0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:530 [<ffffffff818c01a3>] __msan_set_alloca_origin4+0xc3/0x130 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:380 [<ffffffff8426bc13>] SYSC_recvfrom+0x183/0xa00 net/socket.c:1671 [<ffffffff8426ba67>] SyS_recvfrom+0xb7/0xe0 net/socket.c:1668 [<ffffffff851840db>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x8f arch/x86/entry/entry_64.o:? origin description: ----msg@SYSC_recvfrom (origin=00000000b9400a53) ================================================================== The fields of |msg| in SYSC_recvfrom() are initialized except for |msg.msg_flags|, which is later updated in netlink_recvmsg(): 1839 msg->msg_flags |= MSG_TRUNC; and then used in a condition in put_cmsg(): 223 if (MSG_CMSG_COMPAT & msg->msg_flags) The following program has been used to reproduce the error under KMSAN: =================================================== #include <linux/netlink.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <sys/wait.h> void child() { int sock = socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, 16); uint32_t val = 0x1f; setsockopt(sock, 0x10e, 0x3, &val, 4); char obuf[31] = "\x1f\x00\x00\x00\x10\x00\x07\xff\xff\x08\x00\x00" "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x03\x00\x01\x0a\x56\x67\x69\x93" "\x3e\x00\x00\x01\x92\x9a\x02"; char ibuf[31]; write(sock, obuf, sizeof(obuf)); struct sockaddr_nl sockaddr = {AF_NETLINK, 0, 0, 0}; socklen_t addrlen = sizeof(sockaddr); recvfrom(sock, ibuf, 0, 0, &sockaddr, &addrlen); } int main() { int pid = fork(); if (!pid) { child(); return 0; } int status = 0; while (waitpid(pid, &status, __WALL) != pid) {} return 0; } =================================================== Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <gli...@google.com> --- net/socket.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index 2c1e8677ff2d..e0757e648c0c 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -1731,6 +1731,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(recvfrom, int, fd, void __user *, ubuf, size_t, size, /* We assume all kernel code knows the size of sockaddr_storage */ msg.msg_namelen = 0; msg.msg_iocb = NULL; + msg.msg_flags = 0; if (sock->file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) flags |= MSG_DONTWAIT; err = sock_recvmsg(sock, &msg, flags); -- 2.12.0.rc1.440.g5b76565f74-goog