This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipvs: Fix uninit-value in do_ip_vs_set_ctl() to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ipvs-fix-uninit-value-in-do_ip_vs_set_ctl.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b9c99b9d702d72e49cc131fea3cc39bfe3b92477 Author: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Aug 11 03:46:40 2020 -0400 ipvs: Fix uninit-value in do_ip_vs_set_ctl() [ Upstream commit c5a8a8498eed1c164afc94f50a939c1a10abf8ad ] do_ip_vs_set_ctl() is referencing uninitialized stack value when `len` is zero. Fix it. Reported-by: syzbot+23b5f9e7caf61d9a3898@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=46ebfb92a8a812621a001ef04d90dfa459520fe2 Suggested-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c index 678c5b14841c1..8dbfd84322a88 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c @@ -2508,6 +2508,10 @@ do_ip_vs_set_ctl(struct sock *sk, int cmd, sockptr_t ptr, unsigned int len) /* Set timeout values for (tcp tcpfin udp) */ ret = ip_vs_set_timeout(ipvs, (struct ip_vs_timeout_user *)arg); goto out_unlock; + } else if (!len) { + /* No more commands with len == 0 below */ + ret = -EINVAL; + goto out_unlock; } usvc_compat = (struct ip_vs_service_user *)arg; @@ -2584,9 +2588,6 @@ do_ip_vs_set_ctl(struct sock *sk, int cmd, sockptr_t ptr, unsigned int len) break; case IP_VS_SO_SET_DELDEST: ret = ip_vs_del_dest(svc, &udest); - break; - default: - ret = -EINVAL; } out_unlock: