Re: [PATCH v2] wireless/nl80211.c: fix uninitialized variable

[Eric Dumazet]

On 3/30/21 7:22 PM, Alaa Emad wrote:
> This change fix  KMSAN uninit-value in net/wireless/nl80211.c:225 , That
> because of `fixedlen` variable uninitialized,So I initialized it by zero.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+72b99dcf4607e8c770f3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Alaa Emad <alaaemadhossney.ae@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>   - Make the commit message more clearer.
> ---
>  net/wireless/nl80211.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> index 775d0c4d86c3..b87ab67ad33d 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static int validate_beacon_head(const struct nlattr *attr,
>  	const struct element *elem;
>  	const struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt = (void *)data;
>  	bool s1g_bcn = ieee80211_is_s1g_beacon(mgmt->frame_control);
> -	unsigned int fixedlen, hdrlen;
> +	unsigned int fixedlen = 0, hdrlen;
>  
>  	if (s1g_bcn) {
>  		fixedlen = offsetof(struct ieee80211_ext,
> 

What was the report exactly ?

Current code does :

unsigned int fixedlen;

if (s1g_bcn) {
    fixedlen = something1;
    ...
else {
    fixedlen = something2;
    ...
}

So your patch does nothing.

Initial value of @fixedlen is not relevant.

Reading this code (without access to KMSAN report) I suspect the issue
is more like the following :

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 775d0c4d86c3..d815261917ff 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -209,9 +209,12 @@ static int validate_beacon_head(const struct nlattr *attr,
        unsigned int len = nla_len(attr);
        const struct element *elem;
        const struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt = (void *)data;
-       bool s1g_bcn = ieee80211_is_s1g_beacon(mgmt->frame_control);
        unsigned int fixedlen, hdrlen;
+       bool s1g_bcn;
 
+       if (len < offsetofend(typeof(*mgmt), frame_control))
+               goto err;
+       s1g_bcn = ieee80211_is_s1g_beacon(mgmt->frame_control);
        if (s1g_bcn) {
                fixedlen = offsetof(struct ieee80211_ext,
                                    u.s1g_beacon.variable);