[PATCH] netlink: netlink_sendmsg: memset unused tail bytes in skb

From: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: kuba@kernel.org, yhs@fb.com, ast@kernel.org,
	johannes.berg@intel.com, rdunlap@infradead.org,
	0x7f454c46@gmail.com, yangyingliang@huawei.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] netlink: netlink_sendmsg: memset unused tail bytes in skb
Date: Sun,  9 May 2021 13:18:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210509121858.1232583-1-phil@philpotter.co.uk> (raw)

When allocating the skb within netlink_sendmsg, with certain supplied
len arguments, extra bytes are allocated at the end of the data buffer,
due to SKB_DATA_ALIGN giving a larger size within __alloc_skb for
alignment reasons. This means that after using skb_put with the same
len value and then copying data into the skb, the skb tail area is
non-zero in size and contains uninitialised bytes. Wiping this area
(if it exists) fixes a KMSAN-found uninit-value bug reported by syzbot at:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=3e63bcec536b7136b54c72e06adeb87dc6519f69

Reported-by: syzbot+a73d24a22eeeebe5f244@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
---
 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 3a62f97acf39..e54321b63f98 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1914,6 +1914,9 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	if (skb->end - skb->tail)
+		memset(skb_tail_pointer(skb), 0, skb->end - skb->tail);
+
 	err = security_netlink_send(sk, skb);
 	if (err) {
 		kfree_skb(skb);
-- 
2.30.2

