Re: KMSAN: uninit-value in alauda_check_media

From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Fri Oct 11 2019 - 10:18:56 EST


On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 4:08 PM Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Jaskaran Singh wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 12:39 -0700, syzbot wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > syzbot found the following crash on:
> > >
> > > HEAD commit: 1e76a3e5 kmsan: replace __GFP_NO_KMSAN_SHADOW with
> > > kmsan_i..
> > > git tree: https://github.com/google/kmsan.git master
> > > console output:
> > > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1204cc63600000
> > > kernel config:
> > > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=f03c659d0830ab8d
> > > dashboard link:
> > > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e7d46eb426883fb97efd
> > > compiler: clang version 9.0.0 (/home/glider/llvm/clang
> > > 80fee25776c2fb61e74c1ecb1a523375c2500b69)
> > > syz repro:
> > > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=123c860d600000
> > > C reproducer:
> > > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=110631b7600000
> > >
> > > IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the
> > > commit:
> > > Reported-by: syzbot+e7d46eb426883fb97efd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > =====================================================
> > > BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in alauda_transport+0x462/0x57f0
> > > drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c:1137
> > > CPU: 0 PID: 12279 Comm: usb-storage Not tainted 5.3.0-rc7+ #0
> > > Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine,
> > > BIOS
> > > Google 01/01/2011
> > > Call Trace:
> > > __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
> > > dump_stack+0x191/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:113
> > > kmsan_report+0x13a/0x2b0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_report.c:108
> > > __msan_warning+0x73/0xe0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:250
> > > alauda_check_media+0x344/0x3310 drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c:460
> > > alauda_transport+0x462/0x57f0 drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c:1137
> > > usb_stor_invoke_transport+0xf5/0x27e0
> > > drivers/usb/storage/transport.c:606
> > > usb_stor_transparent_scsi_command+0x5d/0x70
> > > drivers/usb/storage/protocol.c:108
> > > usb_stor_control_thread+0xca6/0x11a0 drivers/usb/storage/usb.c:380
> > > kthread+0x4b5/0x4f0 kernel/kthread.c:256
> > > ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:355
>
>
> > #syz test: https://github.com/google/kmsan.git 1e76a3e5
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c
> > b/drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c
> > index ddab2cd3d2e7..bb309b9ad65b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c
> > @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ static int alauda_init_media(struct us_data *us)
> > static int alauda_check_media(struct us_data *us)
> > {
> > struct alauda_info *info = (struct alauda_info *) us->extra;
> > - unsigned char status[2];
> > + unsigned char *status = us->iobuf;
> > int rc;
> >
> > rc = alauda_get_media_status(us, status);

[...]

> Now yes, it's true that defining status as an array on the stack is
> also a bug, since USB transfer buffers are not allowed to be stack
> variables.

Hi Alan,

I'm curious, what is the reason for disallowing that? Should we try to
somehow detect such cases automatically?

Thanks!