Hello, A similar fix has already been queued in the dev branch. Please refer to below commit. Commit fc12a722e6b7 ("exfat: fix setting uninitialized time to ctime/atime"): https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linkinjeon/exfat.git/commit/ ?h=dev&id=fc12a722e6b799d1d3c1520dc9ba9aab4fda04bf Thanks. B.R. Sungjong Seo > KMSAN reported the following uninit-value access issue: > > ===================================================== > BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in exfat_set_entry_time+0x309/0x360 > fs/exfat/misc.c:99 > exfat_set_entry_time+0x309/0x360 fs/exfat/misc.c:99 > __exfat_write_inode+0x7ae/0xdb0 fs/exfat/inode.c:59 > __exfat_truncate+0x70e/0xb20 fs/exfat/file.c:163 > exfat_truncate+0x121/0x540 fs/exfat/file.c:211 > exfat_setattr+0x116c/0x1a40 fs/exfat/file.c:312 > notify_change+0x1934/0x1a30 fs/attr.c:499 > do_truncate+0x224/0x2a0 fs/open.c:66 > handle_truncate fs/namei.c:3280 [inline] do_open fs/namei.c:3626 [inline] > path_openat+0x56c6/0x5f20 fs/namei.c:3779 > do_filp_open+0x21c/0x5a0 fs/namei.c:3809 > do_sys_openat2+0x1ba/0x2f0 fs/open.c:1440 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1455 > [inline] __do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1531 [inline] __se_sys_creat > fs/open.c:1525 [inline] > __x64_sys_creat+0xe3/0x140 fs/open.c:1525 > do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline] > do_syscall_64+0x44/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82 > entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b > > Uninit was stored to memory at: > exfat_set_entry_time+0x302/0x360 fs/exfat/misc.c:99 > __exfat_write_inode+0x7ae/0xdb0 fs/exfat/inode.c:59 > __exfat_truncate+0x70e/0xb20 fs/exfat/file.c:163 > exfat_truncate+0x121/0x540 fs/exfat/file.c:211 > exfat_setattr+0x116c/0x1a40 fs/exfat/file.c:312 > notify_change+0x1934/0x1a30 fs/attr.c:499 > do_truncate+0x224/0x2a0 fs/open.c:66 > handle_truncate fs/namei.c:3280 [inline] do_open fs/namei.c:3626 [inline] > path_openat+0x56c6/0x5f20 fs/namei.c:3779 > do_filp_open+0x21c/0x5a0 fs/namei.c:3809 > do_sys_openat2+0x1ba/0x2f0 fs/open.c:1440 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1455 > [inline] __do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1531 [inline] __se_sys_creat > fs/open.c:1525 [inline] > __x64_sys_creat+0xe3/0x140 fs/open.c:1525 > do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline] > do_syscall_64+0x44/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82 > entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b > > Local variable ts created at: > __exfat_write_inode+0x102/0xdb0 fs/exfat/inode.c:29 > __exfat_truncate+0x70e/0xb20 fs/exfat/file.c:163 > > CPU: 0 PID: 13839 Comm: syz-executor.7 Not tainted 6.6.0-14500- > g1c41041124bd #10 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), > BIOS 1.16.2-1.fc38 04/01/2014 > ===================================================== > > Commit 4c72a36edd54 ("exfat: convert to new timestamp accessors") changed > __exfat_write_inode() to use new timestamp accessor functions. > > As for mtime, inode_set_mtime_to_ts() is called after > exfat_set_entry_time(). This causes the above issue because `ts` is not > initialized when exfat_set_entry_time() is called. The same issue can > occur for atime. > > This patch resolves this issue by calling inode_get_mtime() and > inode_get_atime() before exfat_set_entry_time() to initialize `ts`. > > Fixes: 4c72a36edd54 ("exfat: convert to new timestamp accessors") > Signed-off-by: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/exfat/inode.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/exfat/inode.c b/fs/exfat/inode.c index > 875234179d1f..e7ff58b8e68c 100644 > --- a/fs/exfat/inode.c > +++ b/fs/exfat/inode.c > @@ -56,18 +56,18 @@ int __exfat_write_inode(struct inode *inode, int sync) > &ep->dentry.file.create_time, > &ep->dentry.file.create_date, > &ep->dentry.file.create_time_cs); > + ts = inode_get_mtime(inode); > exfat_set_entry_time(sbi, &ts, > &ep->dentry.file.modify_tz, > &ep->dentry.file.modify_time, > &ep->dentry.file.modify_date, > &ep->dentry.file.modify_time_cs); > - inode_set_mtime_to_ts(inode, ts); > + ts = inode_get_atime(inode); > exfat_set_entry_time(sbi, &ts, > &ep->dentry.file.access_tz, > &ep->dentry.file.access_time, > &ep->dentry.file.access_date, > NULL); > - inode_set_atime_to_ts(inode, ts); > > /* File size should be zero if there is no cluster allocated */ > on_disk_size = i_size_read(inode); > -- > 2.41.0