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From: Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Johnston <matt@codeconstruct.com.au>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] net: mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses are initialised
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:27:33 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260209-dev-mctp-nlmsg-v1-1-f1e30c346a43@codeconstruct.com.au> (raw)

Syed Faraz Abrar (@farazsth98) from Zellic, and Pumpkin (@u1f383) from
DEVCORE Research Team working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
report that a RTM_GETNEIGH will return uninitalised data in the pad
bytes of the ndmsg data.

Ensure we're initialising the netlink data to zero, in the link, addr
and neigh response messages.

Fixes: 831119f88781 ("mctp: Add neighbour netlink interface")
Fixes: 06d2f4c583a7 ("mctp: Add netlink route management")
Fixes: 583be982d934 ("mctp: Add device handling and netlink interface")
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>
---
 net/mctp/device.c | 1 +
 net/mctp/neigh.c  | 1 +
 net/mctp/route.c  | 1 +
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/mctp/device.c b/net/mctp/device.c
index 4d404edd7446e187dd3aa18ee2086c4e2e3da3ee..04c5570bacff69690456d73490a9e4bdebf49d8d 100644
--- a/net/mctp/device.c
+++ b/net/mctp/device.c
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ static int mctp_fill_addrinfo(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		return -EMSGSIZE;
 
 	hdr = nlmsg_data(nlh);
+	memset(hdr, 0, sizeof(*hdr));
 	hdr->ifa_family = AF_MCTP;
 	hdr->ifa_prefixlen = 0;
 	hdr->ifa_flags = 0;
diff --git a/net/mctp/neigh.c b/net/mctp/neigh.c
index 05b899f22d902b275ca1e300542a8d546d59ea15..fc85f0e693014309da9c60e46485466cb5bb6dda 100644
--- a/net/mctp/neigh.c
+++ b/net/mctp/neigh.c
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ static int mctp_fill_neigh(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, u32 seq, int event,
 		return -EMSGSIZE;
 
 	hdr = nlmsg_data(nlh);
+	memset(hdr, 0, sizeof(*hdr));
 	hdr->ndm_family = AF_MCTP;
 	hdr->ndm_ifindex = dev->ifindex;
 	hdr->ndm_state = 0; // TODO other state bits?
diff --git a/net/mctp/route.c b/net/mctp/route.c
index 2ac4011a953fffe9e01f3bfe0f571b3727b3e903..ecbbe4beb2133b90d2a02031baaa058644f0e8fe 100644
--- a/net/mctp/route.c
+++ b/net/mctp/route.c
@@ -1643,6 +1643,7 @@ static int mctp_fill_rtinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct mctp_route *rt,
 		return -EMSGSIZE;
 
 	hdr = nlmsg_data(nlh);
+	memset(hdr, 0, sizeof(*hdr));
 	hdr->rtm_family = AF_MCTP;
 
 	/* we use the _len fields as a number of EIDs, rather than

---
base-commit: 05f7e89ab9731565d8a62e3b5d1ec206485eeb0b
change-id: 20251205-dev-mctp-nlmsg-69dbefa5df7f

Best regards,
-- 
Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>


             reply	other threads:[~2026-02-09  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-09  7:27 Jeremy Kerr [this message]
2026-02-12 13:39 ` [PATCH net] net: mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses are initialised Simon Horman
2026-02-13  2:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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