Re: Use of uninitialized memory with CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO

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On 19/08/2021 22:58, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 06:26:16PM +0100, Alexander Potapenko 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
> 
> 
> Cc Laurent - I think he said he was going to look at virtio rng.

I will have look next week.

Thanks,
Laurent

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