+ Iwashima-san

On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:40:28 -0700, syzbot wrote:

Hello,

syzbot found the following issue on:

HEAD commit:    c612261bedd6 Merge tag 'io_uring-7.0-20260320' of git://gi..
git tree:       upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=155801d6580000
kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=963de479f54c6dbb
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9db6c624635564ad813c
compiler:       Debian clang version 21.1.8 (++20251221033036+2078da43e25a-1~exp1~20251221153213.50), Debian LLD 21.1.8

Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.

Downloadable assets:
disk image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/aa2bdf537bf6/disk-c612261b.raw.xz
vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/8fcd98072431/vmlinux-c612261b.xz
kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/737b94c52155/bzImage-c612261b.xz

IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
Reported-by: syzbot+9db6c624635564ad813c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com

usb 2-1: device reset failed
=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in set_carrier drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c:726 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in rtl8150_open+0x1131/0x1360 drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c:763
 set_carrier drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c:726 [inline]
 rtl8150_open+0x1131/0x1360 drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c:763
 __dev_open+0x8e3/0xd40 net/core/dev.c:1702
 __dev_change_flags+0x32f/0x950 net/core/dev.c:9764
 netif_change_flags+0x8d/0x1e0 net/core/dev.c:9827
 dev_change_flags+0x18c/0x320 net/core/dev_api.c:68
 devinet_ioctl+0x10dd/0x25a0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1199
 inet_ioctl+0x4c0/0x6f0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:1015
 sock_do_ioctl net/socket.c:1254 [inline]
 sock_ioctl+0x769/0x1140 net/socket.c:1375
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x23c/0x400 fs/ioctl.c:583
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xe0 fs/ioctl.c:583
 x64_sys_call+0x1975/0x3ea0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x134/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Local variable tmp.i created at:
 set_carrier drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c:723 [inline]
 rtl8150_open+0xc26/0x1360 drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c:763
 __dev_open+0x8e3/0xd40 net/core/dev.c:1702

I see Iwashima-san was previously working on this issue here:
  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250827233108.3768855-1-kuniyu@google.com/T/ (local)

The issue seems to be that set_carrier() ignores the return value of
get_registers() and may use an uninitialized tmp.

rtl8150 appears to have other call sites that use get_registers() the
same way as mentioned in the thread above.