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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Matt Jan <zoo868e@gmail.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com,
	syzbot+14c04e62ca58315571d1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	marc.dionne@auristor.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
	skhan@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rxrpc: Initialize sockaddr_rxrpc directly
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:00:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <883286.1731942012@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241105191959.2871-1-zoo868e@gmail.com>

Matt Jan <zoo868e@gmail.com> wrote:

> In rxrpc_lookup_peer_local_rcu(), removed the redundant memset call
> that zeros out the sockaddr_rxrpc structure before setting its fields.
> Instead, initialize the sockaddr_rxrpc structure directly in
> rxrpc_input_error().
> 
> This change simplifies the code and ensures that the sockaddr_rxrpc
> structure is properly zero-initialized.

How does that actually fix the issue?

All the patch does is move the initialisation of srx from
rxrpc_lookup_peer_local_rcu() into its only caller - and nothing samples the
contents of srx between.

Looking at the bug report, the history of the uninitialised location goes back
further, to a network address generated/assembled in the ipv6 stack or from
the transmission side of the rxrpc stack, possibly call->peer->srx.transport.

David


      reply	other threads:[~2024-11-18 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-24 22:43 [syzbot] [afs?] [net?] KMSAN: uninit-value in rxrpc_lookup_peer_rcu syzbot
2024-11-05 19:19 ` [PATCH] rxrpc: Initialize sockaddr_rxrpc directly Matt Jan
2024-11-18 15:00   ` David Howells [this message]

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