[PATCH 6.18 004/333] fs: init flags_valid before calling vfs_fileattr_get

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-17T17:06:29Z

From: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@qq.com>

[ Upstream commit cb184dd19154fc486fa3d9e02afe70a97e54e055 ]

syzbot reported a uninit-value bug in [1].

Similar to the "*get" context where the kernel's internal file_kattr
structure is initialized before calling vfs_fileattr_get(), we should
use the same mechanism when using fa.

[1]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in fuse_fileattr_get+0xeb4/0x1450 fs/fuse/ioctl.c:517
fuse_fileattr_get+0xeb4/0x1450 fs/fuse/ioctl.c:517
vfs_fileattr_get fs/file_attr.c:94 [inline]
__do_sys_file_getattr fs/file_attr.c:416 [inline]

Local variable fa.i created at:
__do_sys_file_getattr fs/file_attr.c:380 [inline]
__se_sys_file_getattr+0x8c/0xbd0 fs/file_attr.c:372

Reported-by: syzbot+7c31755f2cea07838b0c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7c31755f2cea07838b0c
Tested-by: syzbot+7c31755f2cea07838b0c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@qq.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_B6C4583771D76766D71362A368696EC3B605@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/file_attr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/file_attr.c b/fs/file_attr.c
index 1dcec88c06805..9d3e177ad7d1d 100644
--- a/fs/file_attr.c
+++ b/fs/file_attr.c
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(file_getattr, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename,
struct filename *name __free(putname) = NULL;
unsigned int lookup_flags = 0;
struct file_attr fattr;
- struct file_kattr fa;
+ struct file_kattr fa = { .flags_valid = true }; /* hint only */
int error;

BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct file_attr) < FILE_ATTR_SIZE_VER0);
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2.51.0