Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 2 authors, 2026-06-04
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[PATCH net v2 10/11] mptcp: fix uninit-value in mptcp_established_options

From: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-06-02 12:15:30
Also in: linux-kselftest, lkml, mptcp, stable
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [mptcp], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Matthieu Baerts, Mat Martineau, Linus Torvalds

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

syzbot reported the following uninit splat:

  BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mptcp_write_data_fin net/mptcp/options.c:542 [inline]
  BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mptcp_established_options_dss net/mptcp/options.c:590 [inline]
  BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mptcp_established_options+0x112f/0x3530 net/mptcp/options.c:874
   mptcp_write_data_fin net/mptcp/options.c:542 [inline]
   mptcp_established_options_dss net/mptcp/options.c:590 [inline]
   mptcp_established_options+0x112f/0x3530 net/mptcp/options.c:874
   tcp_established_options+0x312/0xcc0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1192
   __tcp_transmit_skb+0x5dc/0x5fe0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1575
   __tcp_send_ack+0x967/0xad0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:4499
   tcp_send_ack+0x3d/0x60 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:4505
   mptcp_subflow_shutdown+0x164/0x690 net/mptcp/protocol.c:3137
   mptcp_check_send_data_fin+0x31b/0x3d0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:3218
   __mptcp_wr_shutdown net/mptcp/protocol.c:3234 [inline]
   __mptcp_close+0x860/0x1360 net/mptcp/protocol.c:3313
   mptcp_close+0x42/0x260 net/mptcp/protocol.c:3367
   inet_release+0x1ee/0x2a0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:442
   __sock_release net/socket.c:722 [inline]
   sock_close+0xd6/0x2f0 net/socket.c:1514
   __fput+0x60e/0x1010 fs/file_table.c:510
   ____fput+0x25/0x30 fs/file_table.c:538
   task_work_run+0x208/0x2b0 kernel/task_work.c:233
   resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
   __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:67 [inline]
   exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x306/0x1b60 kernel/entry/common.c:98
   __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
   syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:238 [inline]
   syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
   __do_fast_syscall_32+0x2c7/0x460 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:310
   do_fast_syscall_32+0x37/0x80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:332
   do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:370
   entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e

  Local variable opts created at:
   __tcp_transmit_skb+0x4d/0x5fe0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1536
   __tcp_send_ack+0x967/0xad0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:4499

The output path currently omits initializing the mptcp extension
`use_map` flag in a few corner cases.

Address the issue always zeroing all the extensions flags before
eventually initializing the individual bits. To that extent, introduce
and use a struct_group to avoid multiple bitwise operations.

Fixes: cfcceb7a39fc ("tcp: shrink per-packet memset in __tcp_transmit_skb()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+ff020673c5e3d94d9478@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ff020673c5e3d94d9478
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
---
 include/net/mptcp.h | 7 +++++--
 net/mptcp/options.c | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/mptcp.h b/include/net/mptcp.h
index f7263fe2a2e4..ee70f597a4de 100644
--- a/include/net/mptcp.h
+++ b/include/net/mptcp.h
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ struct mptcp_ext {
 	u32		subflow_seq;
 	u16		data_len;
 	__sum16		csum;
-	u8		use_map:1,
+
+	struct_group(flags,
+		u8	use_map:1,
 			dsn64:1,
 			data_fin:1,
 			use_ack:1,
@@ -35,9 +37,10 @@ struct mptcp_ext {
 			mpc_map:1,
 			frozen:1,
 			reset_transient:1;
-	u8		reset_reason:4,
+		u8	reset_reason:4,
 			csum_reqd:1,
 			infinite_map:1;
+	); /* end of flags group */
 };
 
 #define MPTCPOPT_HMAC_LEN	20
diff --git a/net/mptcp/options.c b/net/mptcp/options.c
index 51ca334678b4..f9f587203c35 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/options.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/options.c
@@ -572,6 +572,11 @@ static bool mptcp_established_options_dss(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	unsigned int ack_size;
 	bool ret = false;
 
+	/* Zero `use_ack` and `use_map` flags with one shot. */
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof_field(struct mptcp_ext, flags) != sizeof(u16));
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(offsetof(struct mptcp_ext, flags),
+				 sizeof(u16)));
+	*(u16 *)&opts->ext_copy.flags = 0;
 	opts->csum_reqd = READ_ONCE(msk->csum_enabled);
 	mpext = skb ? mptcp_get_ext(skb) : NULL;
 
@@ -595,7 +600,6 @@ static bool mptcp_established_options_dss(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	/* passive sockets msk will set the 'can_ack' after accept(), even
 	 * if the first subflow may have the already the remote key handy
 	 */
-	opts->ext_copy.use_ack = 0;
 	if (!READ_ONCE(msk->can_ack)) {
 		*size = ALIGN(dss_size, 4);
 		return ret;
-- 
2.53.0
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