Re: [PATCH] net: pegasus: fix uninit-value in get_interrupt_interval

[Pavel Skripkin]

On 7/31/21 12:44 AM, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> Syzbot reported uninit value pegasus_probe(). The problem was in missing
> error handling.
>
> get_interrupt_interval() internally calls read_eprom_word() which can
> fail in some cases. For example: failed to receive usb control message.
> These cases should be handled to prevent uninit value bug, since
> read_eprom_word() will not initialize passed stack variable in case of
> internal failure.
>
> Fail log:
>
> BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in get_interrupt_interval drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c:746 [inline]
> BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in pegasus_probe+0x10e7/0x4080 drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c:1152
> CPU: 1 PID: 825 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc6-syzkaller #0
> ...
> Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
> Call Trace:
>   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:79 [inline]
>   dump_stack+0x24c/0x2e0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
>   kmsan_report+0xfb/0x1e0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_report.c:118
>   __msan_warning+0x5c/0xa0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:197
>   get_interrupt_interval drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c:746 [inline]
>   pegasus_probe+0x10e7/0x4080 drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c:1152
> ....
>
> Local variable ----data.i@pegasus_probe created at:
>   get_interrupt_interval drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c:1151 [inline]
>   pegasus_probe+0xe57/0x4080 drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c:1152
>   get_interrupt_interval drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c:1151 [inline]
>   pegasus_probe+0xe57/0x4080 drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c:1152
>
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+02c9f70f3afae308464a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c | 14 +++++++++++---
>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Hi, David and Jakub!

Should I rebase this patch on top of Petko's clean-up patches? :

1. https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/8a160e2e9aeb
2. https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/bc65bacf239d



With regards,
Pavel Skripkin