Re: KMSAN: uninit-value in batadv_hard_if_event

From: Alexander Potapenko
Date: Fri Oct 18 2019 - 10:34:19 EST


On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 4:32 PM Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> not sure whether this is now a bug in batman-adv or in the rtl8150 driver. See
> my comments inline.
>
> On Friday, 18 October 2019 16:12:08 CEST syzbot wrote:
> [...]
> > usb 1-1: config 0 has no interface number 0
> > usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0411, idProduct=0012,
> > bcdDevice=56.5f
> > usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
> > usb 1-1: config 0 descriptor??
> > =====================================================
> > BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in batadv_check_known_mac_addr
> > net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c:511 [inline]
> > BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in batadv_hardif_add_interface
> > net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c:942 [inline]
> > BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in batadv_hard_if_event+0x23c0/0x3260
> > net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c:1032
> > CPU: 0 PID: 13223 Comm: kworker/0:3 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3+ #0
> > Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
> > Google 01/01/2011
> > Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
> > Call Trace:
> > __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
> > dump_stack+0x191/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:113
> > kmsan_report+0x14a/0x2f0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_report.c:109
> > __msan_warning+0x73/0xf0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:245
> > batadv_check_known_mac_addr net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c:511 [inline]
> > batadv_hardif_add_interface net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c:942 [inline]
> > batadv_hard_if_event+0x23c0/0x3260 net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c:1032
> > notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:95 [inline]
> [...]
>
> The line in batman-adv is (batadv_check_known_mac_addr):
>
> if (!batadv_compare_eth(hard_iface->net_dev->dev_addr,
> net_dev->dev_addr))
>
> So it goes through the list of ethernet interfaces (which are currently
> attached to a batadv interface) and compares it with the new device's MAC
> address. And it seems like the new device doesn't have the mac address part
> initialized yet.
>
> Is this allowed in NETDEV_REGISTER/NETDEV_POST_TYPE_CHANGE?
>
> > Uninit was stored to memory at:
> > kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:150 [inline]
> > kmsan_internal_chain_origin+0xbd/0x170 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:317
> > kmsan_memcpy_memmove_metadata+0x25c/0x2e0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:253
> > kmsan_memcpy_metadata+0xb/0x10 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:273
> > __msan_memcpy+0x56/0x70 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:129
> > set_ethernet_addr drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c:282 [inline]
> > rtl8150_probe+0x1143/0x14a0 drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c:912
>
> This looks like it should store the mac address at this point.
>
> static inline void set_ethernet_addr(rtl8150_t * dev)
> {
> u8 node_id[6];
>
> get_registers(dev, IDR, sizeof(node_id), node_id);
> memcpy(dev->netdev->dev_addr, node_id, sizeof(node_id));
> }
>
> But it seems more like get_registers failed and the uninitialized was still
> copied to the mac address. Thus causing the KMSAN error in batman-adv.
Yes, most of such reports is usually because functions like
get_registers() fail or read 0 bytes.

> Is this interpretation of the KMSAN output correct or do I miss something?
>
> Kind regards,
> Sven



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