On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 7:03 AM, Alexander Potapenko [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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 <glider@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.