memcmp may bail out before accessing all the memory if the buffers contain differing bytes. kasan_memcmp calls memcmp with a stack array. Stack variables are not necessarily initialised (in the absence of a compiler plugin, at least). Sometimes this causes the memcpy to bail early thus fail to trigger kasan. Make sure the array initialised to zero in the code. No other test is dependent on the contents of an array on the stack. Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/test_kasan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/test_kasan.c b/lib/test_kasan.c index 939f395a5392..7700097842c8 100644 --- a/lib/test_kasan.c +++ b/lib/test_kasan.c @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ static noinline void __init kasan_memcmp(void) { char *ptr; size_t size = 24; - int arr[9]; + int arr[9] = {}; pr_info("out-of-bounds in memcmp\n"); ptr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); -- 2.20.1