This might have fallen through the cracks. Any opinions?
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 6:26 PM Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Amos, Rusty, Amit, Michael,
>
> I am hitting something that I believe to be a minor problem in the
> virtio RNG driver.
> When running the kernel under KMSAN with "-device virtio-rng-pci"
> passed to QEMU, I am seeing reports about rng_fillbuf in
> drivers/char/hw_random/core.c being used before initialization (see
> the report below).
>
> This can be verified by initializing rng_fillbuf with 'A' as follows:
> ==========================================
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> index 8c1c47dd9f46..44d609a5796a 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> @@ -439,8 +439,11 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
> if (IS_ERR(rng) || !rng)
> break;
> mutex_lock(&reading_mutex);
> + memset(rng_fillbuf, 'A', rng_buffer_size());
> + rng_fillbuf[rng_buffer_size()-1] = 0;
> rc = rng_get_data(rng, rng_fillbuf,
> rng_buffer_size(), 1);
> + pr_err("rng_fillbuf: %s\n", rng_fillbuf);
> mutex_unlock(&reading_mutex);
> put_rng(rng);
> if (rc <= 0) {
> ==========================================
>
> and booting the kernel: the first call of hwrng_fillfn() will print
> "AAAAAAA.." instead of random data.
>
> For some reason on that first iteration vi->busy is true here:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c#L62,
> therefore the buffer is not being sent to virtio ring.
>
> While probably being benign, this bug is preventing syzkaller from
> finding more bugs, so it would be nice to fix it.
> Perhaps the easiest solution is to kzalloc rng_fillbuf, but if it's
> critical for this driver to not skip even the first read, then maybe
> you have better ideas?
>
> KMSAN report follows:
>
> =====================================================
> BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in _mix_pool_bytes+0x7d2/0x950
> drivers/char/random.c:570
> CPU: 0 PID: 2711 Comm: hwrng Not tainted 5.9.0-rc8-syzkaller #0
> Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine,
> BIOS Google 01/01/2011
> Call Trace:
> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
> dump_stack+0x21c/0x280 lib/dump_stack.c:118
> kmsan_report+0xf7/0x1e0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_report.c:122
> __msan_warning+0x5f/0xa0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:201
> _mix_pool_bytes+0x7d2/0x950 drivers/char/random.c:570
> mix_pool_bytes+0xca/0x2a0 drivers/char/random.c:599
> add_hwgenerator_randomness+0x4ac/0x500 drivers/char/random.c:2319
> hwrng_fillfn+0x6ae/0x940 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c:452
> kthread+0x51c/0x560 kernel/kthread.c:293
> ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:294
>
> Uninit was created at:
> kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:129 [inline]
> kmsan_internal_poison_shadow+0x5c/0xf0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:112
> kmsan_slab_alloc+0x8d/0xe0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_hooks.c:80
> slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2903 [inline]
> slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2912 [inline]
> kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x61e/0xc90 mm/slub.c:2929
> kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:554 [inline]
> hwrng_modinit+0x103/0x2ef drivers/char/hw_random/core.c:621
> do_one_initcall+0x371/0x9c0 init/main.c:1208
> do_initcall_level+0x1e5/0x3c6 init/main.c:1281
> do_initcalls+0x127/0x1cb init/main.c:1297
> do_basic_setup+0x33/0x36 init/main.c:1317
> kernel_init_freeable+0x238/0x38b init/main.c:1517
> kernel_init+0x1f/0x840 init/main.c:1406
> ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:294
> =====================================================
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> --
> Alexander Potapenko
> Software Engineer
>
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>
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--
Alexander Potapenko
Software Engineer
Google Germany GmbH
Erika-Mann-Straße, 33
80636 München
Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado
Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg
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