On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 05:18:01PM -0700, Tycho Andersen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 03:59:37PM -0800, coverity-bot wrote: > > Hello! > > > > This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by > > Coverity from a scan of next-20240213 as part of the linux-next scan project: > > https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan > > > > You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified > > lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits: > > > > Sat Feb 10 22:37:25 2024 +0100 > > 3f643cd23510 ("pidfd: allow to override signal scope in pidfd_send_signal()") > > Sat Feb 10 22:37:23 2024 +0100 > > 81b9d8ac0640 ("pidfd: change pidfd_send_signal() to respect PIDFD_THREAD") > > > > Coverity reported the following: > > > > *** CID 1583637: (UNINIT) > > kernel/signal.c:3963 in __do_sys_pidfd_send_signal() > > 3957 /* Only allow sending arbitrary signals to yourself. */ > > 3958 ret = -EPERM; > > 3959 if ((task_pid(current) != pid) && > > 3960 (kinfo.si_code >= 0 || kinfo.si_code == SI_TKILL)) > > 3961 goto err; > > 3962 } else { > > vvv CID 1583637: (UNINIT) > > vvv Using uninitialized value "type" when calling "prepare_kill_siginfo". > > 3963 prepare_kill_siginfo(sig, &kinfo, type); > > 3964 } > > 3965 > > 3966 if (type == PIDTYPE_PGID) > > 3967 ret = kill_pgrp_info(sig, &kinfo, pid); > > 3968 else > > kernel/signal.c:3966 in __do_sys_pidfd_send_signal() > > 3960 (kinfo.si_code >= 0 || kinfo.si_code == SI_TKILL)) > > 3961 goto err; > > 3962 } else { > > 3963 prepare_kill_siginfo(sig, &kinfo, type); > > 3964 } > > 3965 > > vvv CID 1583637: (UNINIT) > > vvv Using uninitialized value "type". > > 3966 if (type == PIDTYPE_PGID) > > 3967 ret = kill_pgrp_info(sig, &kinfo, pid); > > 3968 else > > 3969 ret = kill_pid_info_type(sig, &kinfo, pid, type); > > 3970 err: > > 3971 fdput(f); > > > > If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as > > such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make > > sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please > > include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first): > > I think this is a false positive, we have: > > /* Enforce flags be set to 0 until we add an extension. */ > if (flags & ~PIDFD_SEND_SIGNAL_FLAGS) > return -EINVAL; > > /* Ensure that only a single signal scope determining flag is set. */ > if (hweight32(flags & PIDFD_SEND_SIGNAL_FLAGS) > 1) > return -EINVAL; Ah yeah, coverity can't see through the hweight32 test. Sorry for the noise! -- Kees Cook