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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tipc: eliminate KMSAN uninit-value in strcmp
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Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 08:25:46 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 21:44:06 +0800

> When we get link properties through netlink interface with
> tipc_nl_node_get_link(), we don't validate TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME
> attribute at all, instead we directly use it. As a consequence,
> KMSAN detected the TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME attribute was an uninitialized
> value, and then posted the following complaint:
 ...
> To quiet the complaint, TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME attribute has been
> validated in tipc_nl_node_get_link() before it's used.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+df0257c92ffd4fcc58cd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>

Applied, thanks.