Re: KMSAN: uninit-value in can_receive

From: Oliver Hartkopp
Date: Tue Nov 19 2019 - 15:31:08 EST


Hi Eric,

On 19/11/2019 17.53, Eric Dumazet wrote:


On 11/18/19 11:35 PM, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:



See ioctl$ifreq https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=14563416e00000

23:11:34 executing program 2:
r0 = socket(0x200000000000011, 0x3, 0x0)
ioctl$ifreq_SIOCGIFINDEX_vcan(r0, 0x8933, &(0x7f0000000040)={'vxcan1\x00', <r1=>0x0})
bind$packet(r0, &(0x7f0000000300)={0x11, 0xc, r1}, 0x14)
sendmmsg(r0, &(0x7f0000000d00), 0x400004e, 0x0)

We only can receive skbs from (v(x))can devices.
No matter if someone wrote to them via PF_CAN or PF_PACKET.
We check for ETH_P_CAN(FD) type and ARPHRD_CAN dev type at rx time.

And what entity sets the can_skb_prv(skb)->skbcnt to zero exactly ?


We additionally might think about introducing a check whether we have a
can_skb_reserve() created skbuff.

But even if someone forged a skbuff without this reserved space the
access to can_skb_prv(skb)->skbcnt would point into some CAN frame
content - which is still no access to uninitialized content, right?

So this question remains still valid whether we have a false positive from KMSAN here.

I do not believe it is a false positive.

It seems CAN relies on some properties of low level drivers using alloc_can_skb() or similar function.

Why not simply fix this like that ?

diff --git a/net/can/af_can.c b/net/can/af_can.c
index 128d37a4c2e0ba5d8db69fcceec8cbd6a79380df..3e71a78d82af84caaacd0ef512b5e894efbf4852 100644
--- a/net/can/af_can.c
+++ b/net/can/af_can.c
@@ -647,8 +647,9 @@ static void can_receive(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
pkg_stats->rx_frames_delta++;
/* create non-zero unique skb identifier together with *skb */
- while (!(can_skb_prv(skb)->skbcnt))
+ do {
can_skb_prv(skb)->skbcnt = atomic_inc_return(&skbcounter);
+ } while (!(can_skb_prv(skb)->skbcnt));
rcu_read_lock();

Please check commit d3b58c47d330d ("can: replace timestamp as unique skb attribute").

can_skb_prv(skb)->skbcnt is set to 0 at skb creation time when sending CAN frames from local host or receiving CAN frames from a real CAN interface.

When a CAN skb is received by the net layer the *first* time it gets a unique value which we need for a per-cpu filter mechanism in raw_rcv().

So where's the problem to check for (!(can_skb_prv(skb)->skbcnt)) in a while statement? I can't see a chance for an uninitialized value there.

Regards,
Oliver