Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 2 authors, 2020-02-26

Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] kasan: initialise array in kasan_memcmp test

From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Date: 2020-01-16 08:07:46
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm, linux-s390, lkml

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:26 AM Daniel Axtens [off-list ref] wrote:
memcmp may bail out before accessing all the memory if the buffers
contain differing bytes. kasan_memcmp calls memcmp with a stack array.
Stack variables are not necessarily initialised (in the absence of a
compiler plugin, at least). Sometimes this causes the memcpy to bail
early thus fail to trigger kasan.

Make sure the array initialised to zero in the code.

No other test is dependent on the contents of an array on the stack.

Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <redacted>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 lib/test_kasan.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/test_kasan.c b/lib/test_kasan.c
index a130d75b9385..519b0f259e97 100644
--- a/lib/test_kasan.c
+++ b/lib/test_kasan.c
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ static noinline void __init kasan_memcmp(void)
 {
        char *ptr;
        size_t size = 24;
-       int arr[9];
+       int arr[9] = {};

        pr_info("out-of-bounds in memcmp\n");
        ptr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
--
2.20.1

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