* patch "misc: vmw_vmci: explicitly initialize vmci_datagram payload" added to char-misc-next
@ 2021-04-06 5:20 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2021-04-06 5:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: penguin-kernel, gregkh, stable
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
misc: vmw_vmci: explicitly initialize vmci_datagram payload
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-next branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release
during the merge window.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
From b2192cfeba8481224da0a4ec3b4a7ccd80b1623b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 21:17:42 +0900
Subject: misc: vmw_vmci: explicitly initialize vmci_datagram payload
KMSAN complains that vmci_check_host_caps() left the payload part of
check_msg uninitialized.
=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in kmsan_check_memory+0xd/0x10
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G B 5.11.0-rc7+ #4
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 02/27/2020
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x21c/0x280
kmsan_report+0xfb/0x1e0
kmsan_internal_check_memory+0x202/0x520
kmsan_check_memory+0xd/0x10
iowrite8_rep+0x86/0x380
vmci_guest_probe_device+0xf0b/0x1e70
pci_device_probe+0xab3/0xe70
really_probe+0xd16/0x24d0
driver_probe_device+0x29d/0x3a0
device_driver_attach+0x25a/0x490
__driver_attach+0x78c/0x840
bus_for_each_dev+0x210/0x340
driver_attach+0x89/0xb0
bus_add_driver+0x677/0xc40
driver_register+0x485/0x8e0
__pci_register_driver+0x1ff/0x350
vmci_guest_init+0x3e/0x41
vmci_drv_init+0x1d6/0x43f
do_one_initcall+0x39c/0x9a0
do_initcall_level+0x1d7/0x259
do_initcalls+0x127/0x1cb
do_basic_setup+0x33/0x36
kernel_init_freeable+0x29a/0x3ed
kernel_init+0x1f/0x840
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
Uninit was created at:
kmsan_internal_poison_shadow+0x5c/0xf0
kmsan_slab_alloc+0x8d/0xe0
kmem_cache_alloc+0x84f/0xe30
vmci_guest_probe_device+0xd11/0x1e70
pci_device_probe+0xab3/0xe70
really_probe+0xd16/0x24d0
driver_probe_device+0x29d/0x3a0
device_driver_attach+0x25a/0x490
__driver_attach+0x78c/0x840
bus_for_each_dev+0x210/0x340
driver_attach+0x89/0xb0
bus_add_driver+0x677/0xc40
driver_register+0x485/0x8e0
__pci_register_driver+0x1ff/0x350
vmci_guest_init+0x3e/0x41
vmci_drv_init+0x1d6/0x43f
do_one_initcall+0x39c/0x9a0
do_initcall_level+0x1d7/0x259
do_initcalls+0x127/0x1cb
do_basic_setup+0x33/0x36
kernel_init_freeable+0x29a/0x3ed
kernel_init+0x1f/0x840
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
Bytes 28-31 of 36 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 36 starts at ffff8881675e5f00
=====================================================
Fixes: 1f166439917b69d3 ("VMCI: guest side driver implementation.")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210402121742.3917-2-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c
index cc8eeb361fcd..1018dc77269d 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int vmci_check_host_caps(struct pci_dev *pdev)
VMCI_UTIL_NUM_RESOURCES * sizeof(u32);
struct vmci_datagram *check_msg;
- check_msg = kmalloc(msg_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ check_msg = kzalloc(msg_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!check_msg) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "%s: Insufficient memory\n", __func__);
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.31.1
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