From: Qing Wang <wangqing7171@gmail.com>
To: ebiggers@kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, jaegeuk@kernel.org
Cc: linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Qing Wang <wangqing7171@gmail.com>,
syzbot+d130f98b2c265fae5297@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] fscrypt: Fix uninit-value in ovl_fill_real
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:30:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260123073037.4164303-1-wangqing7171@gmail.com> (raw)
Syzbot reported a KMSAN uninit-value issue in ovl_fill_real and it was
allocated from fscrypt_fname_alloc_buffer. Fixed it by kzalloc.
The call chain is:
__do_sys_getdents64()
-> iterate_dir()
...
-> ext4_readdir()
-> fscrypt_fname_alloc_buffer() // alloc
-> dir_emit()
-> ovl_fill_real() // use by strcmp()
Reported-by: syzbot+d130f98b2c265fae5297@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Close: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d130f98b2c265fae5297
Signed-off-by: Qing Wang <wangqing7171@gmail.com>
---
fs/crypto/fname.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/crypto/fname.c b/fs/crypto/fname.c
index a9a4432d12ba..ba8282b96a2e 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/fname.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/fname.c
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ int fscrypt_fname_alloc_buffer(u32 max_encrypted_len,
u32 max_presented_len = max_t(u32, FSCRYPT_NOKEY_NAME_MAX_ENCODED,
max_encrypted_len);
- crypto_str->name = kmalloc(max_presented_len + 1, GFP_NOFS);
+ crypto_str->name = kzalloc(max_presented_len + 1, GFP_NOFS);
if (!crypto_str->name)
return -ENOMEM;
crypto_str->len = max_presented_len;
--
2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-01-23 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-23 7:30 Qing Wang [this message]
2026-01-24 18:25 ` [PATCH] fscrypt: Fix uninit-value in ovl_fill_real Eric Biggers
2026-01-26 6:22 ` [PATCH v2] " Qing Wang
2026-01-27 3:47 ` Eric Biggers
2026-01-27 6:10 ` [PATCH] " Qing Wang
2026-01-26 6:33 ` Qing Wang
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