On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 7:03 AM, Alexander Potapenko <gli...@google.com> wrote:
> KMSAN reports use of uninitialized memory in the case when |alen| is
> smaller than sizeof(struct netlink_sock), and therefore |nladdr| isn't
> fully copied from the userspace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <gli...@google.com>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f41524 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> ---
> net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> index 07e8478068f0..5d49b39e81c3 100644
> --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> @@ -1085,6 +1085,9 @@ static int netlink_connect(struct socket *sock, struct
> sockaddr *addr,
> if (addr->sa_family != AF_NETLINK)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> + if (alen < sizeof(struct netlink_sock))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
>
Hmmm. How was this patch tested exactly ?
Thanks.
