On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:41:57PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Looking at the actual KMSAN report, it looks like it's nameidata::dir_mode or
> nameidata::dir_uid that is uninitialized. You need to figure out the correct
> solution, not just blindly initialize with zeroes -- that could hide a bug.
> Is there a bug that is preventing these fields from being initialized to the
> correct values, are these fields being used when they shouldn't be, etc...
False positive, and this is the wrong place to shut it up.
->dir_uid and ->dir_mode are set when link_path_walk() resolves the pathname
to directory + final component. They are used when deciding whether to reject
a trailing symlink (on fs.protected_symlinks setups) and whether to allow
creation in sticky directories (on fs.protected_regular and fs.protected_fifos
setups). Both operations really need the results of successful link_path_walk().
I don't see how that could be not a false positive. If we hit the use in
may_create_in_sticky(), we'd need the combination of
* pathname that consists only of slashes (or it will be initialized)
* LAST_NORM in nd->last_type, which is flat-out impossible, since
we are left with LAST_ROOT for such pathnames. The same goes for
may_follow_link() use - we need WALK_TRAILING in flags to hit it in the
first place, which can come from two sources -
return walk_component(nd, WALK_TRAILING);
in lookup_last() (and walk_component() won't go anywhere near the
call chain leading to may_follow_link() without LAST_NORM in nd->last_type)
and
res = step_into(nd, WALK_TRAILING, dentry, inode, seq);
in open_last_lookups(), which also won't go anywhere near that line without
LAST_NORM in the nd->last_type.
IOW, unless we manage to call that without having called link_path_walk()
at all or after link_path_walk() returning an error, we shouldn't hit
that. And if we *do* go there without link_path_walk() or with an error
from link_path_walk(), we have a much worse problem.
I want to see the details of reproducer. If it's for real, we have a much
more serious problem; if it's a false positive, the right place to deal
with it would be elsewhere (perhaps on return from link_path_walk() with
a slashes-only pathname), but in any case it should only be done after we
manage to understand what's going on.
