From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759949AbdLRSMK (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2017 13:12:10 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34006 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933632AbdLRPw4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:52:56 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Potapenko , "David S. Miller" , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.4 021/115] net: initialize msg.msg_flags in recvfrom Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:48:10 +0100 Message-Id: <20171218152853.513761756@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.15.1 In-Reply-To: <20171218152851.886086917@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20171218152851.886086917@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Alexander Potapenko [ Upstream commit 9f138fa609c47403374a862a08a41394be53d461 ] KMSAN reports a use of uninitialized memory in put_cmsg() because msg.msg_flags in recvfrom haven't been initialized properly. The flag values don't affect the result on this path, but it's still a good idea to initialize them explicitly. Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/socket.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -1697,6 +1697,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(recvfrom, int, fd, void /* We assume all kernel code knows the size of sockaddr_storage */ msg.msg_namelen = 0; msg.msg_iocb = NULL; + msg.msg_flags = 0; if (sock->file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) flags |= MSG_DONTWAIT; err = sock_recvmsg(sock, &msg, iov_iter_count(&msg.msg_iter), flags);