[PATCH] net: initialize msg.msg_flags in recvfrom

From: Alexander Potapenko
Date: Tue Mar 07 2017 - 09:06:29 EST


KMSAN (KernelMemorySanitizer, a new error detection tool) reports use
of uninitialized memory in put_cmsg()):

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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 <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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