Re: [PATCH] vhost_net: initialize rx_ring in vhost_net_open()

[Eric Dumazet]

On 03/08/2018 05:37 AM, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
KMSAN reported a use of uninit memory in vhost_net_buf_unproduce()
while trying to access n->vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_TX].rx_ring:


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Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <gli...@google.com>

Please identify bug origin with a Fixes: tag

This will tremendously help stable teams that are struggling with many 
backports these days.

Thanks.

---
  drivers/vhost/net.c | 1 +
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 610cba276d47..60f1080bffc7 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -948,6 +948,7 @@ static int vhost_net_open(struct inode *inode, struct file 
*f)
                n->vqs[i].done_idx = 0;
                n->vqs[i].vhost_hlen = 0;
                n->vqs[i].sock_hlen = 0;
+               n->vqs[i].rx_ring = NULL;
                vhost_net_buf_init(&n->vqs[i].rxq);
        }
        vhost_dev_init(dev, vqs, VHOST_NET_VQ_MAX);