[PATCH] net: core: Initialize new header to zero in pskb_expand_head
From: Prithvi Tambewagh
Date: Thu Nov 06 2025 - 14:24:45 EST
KMSAN reports uninitialized value in can_receive(). The crash trace shows
the uninitialized value was created in pskb_expand_head(). This function
expands header of a socket buffer using kmalloc_reserve() which doesn't
zero-initialize the memory. When old packet data is copied to the new
buffer at an offset of data+nhead, new header area (first nhead bytes of
the new buffer) are left uninitialized. This is fixed by using memset()
to zero-initialize this header of the new buffer.
Reported-by: syzbot+4b8a1e4690e64b018227@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4b8a1e4690e64b018227
Signed-off-by: Prithvi Tambewagh <activprithvi@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/skbuff.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 6841e61a6bd0..3486271260ac 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -2282,6 +2282,8 @@ int pskb_expand_head(struct sk_buff *skb, int nhead, int ntail,
*/
memcpy(data + nhead, skb->head, skb_tail_pointer(skb) - skb->head);
+ memset(data, 0, size);
+
memcpy((struct skb_shared_info *)(data + size),
skb_shinfo(skb),
offsetof(struct skb_shared_info, frags[skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags]));
--
2.34.1