This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tun: bail out from tun_get_user() if the skb is empty to the 4.4-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: tun-bail-out-from-tun_get_user-if-the-skb-is-empty.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Oct 19 14:05:19 CEST 2017 From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:32:37 +0200 Subject: tun: bail out from tun_get_user() if the skb is empty From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 2580c4c17aee3ad58e9751012bad278dd074ccae ] KMSAN (https://github.com/google/kmsan) reported accessing uninitialized skb->data[0] in the case the skb is empty (i.e. skb->len is 0): ================================================ BUG: KMSAN: use of uninitialized memory in tun_get_user+0x19ba/0x3770 CPU: 0 PID: 3051 Comm: probe Not tainted 4.13.0+ #3140 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Call Trace: ... __msan_warning_32+0x66/0xb0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:477 tun_get_user+0x19ba/0x3770 drivers/net/tun.c:1301 tun_chr_write_iter+0x19f/0x300 drivers/net/tun.c:1365 call_write_iter ./include/linux/fs.h:1743 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:457 __vfs_write+0x6c3/0x7f0 fs/read_write.c:470 vfs_write+0x3e4/0x770 fs/read_write.c:518 SYSC_write+0x12f/0x2b0 fs/read_write.c:565 SyS_write+0x55/0x80 fs/read_write.c:557 do_syscall_64+0x242/0x330 arch/x86/entry/common.c:284 entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 ... origin: ... kmsan_poison_shadow+0x6e/0xc0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:211 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2732 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x351/0x370 mm/slub.c:4351 __kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:138 __alloc_skb+0x26a/0x810 net/core/skbuff.c:231 alloc_skb ./include/linux/skbuff.h:903 alloc_skb_with_frags+0x1d7/0xc80 net/core/skbuff.c:4756 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xabf/0xfe0 net/core/sock.c:2037 tun_alloc_skb drivers/net/tun.c:1144 tun_get_user+0x9a8/0x3770 drivers/net/tun.c:1274 tun_chr_write_iter+0x19f/0x300 drivers/net/tun.c:1365 call_write_iter ./include/linux/fs.h:1743 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:457 __vfs_write+0x6c3/0x7f0 fs/read_write.c:470 vfs_write+0x3e4/0x770 fs/read_write.c:518 SYSC_write+0x12f/0x2b0 fs/read_write.c:565 SyS_write+0x55/0x80 fs/read_write.c:557 do_syscall_64+0x242/0x330 arch/x86/entry/common.c:284 return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x6a arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 ================================================ Make sure tun_get_user() doesn't touch skb->data[0] unless there is actual data. C reproducer below: ========================== // autogenerated by syzkaller (http://github.com/google/syzkaller) #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <fcntl.h> #include <linux/if_tun.h> #include <netinet/ip.h> #include <net/if.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> int main() { int sock = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP); int tun_fd = open("/dev/net/tun", O_RDWR); struct ifreq req; memset(&req, 0, sizeof(struct ifreq)); strcpy((char*)&req.ifr_name, "gre0"); req.ifr_flags = IFF_UP | IFF_MULTICAST; ioctl(tun_fd, TUNSETIFF, &req); ioctl(sock, SIOCSIFFLAGS, "gre0"); write(tun_fd, "hi", 0); return 0; } ========================== Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/tun.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -1195,11 +1195,13 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_s switch (tun->flags & TUN_TYPE_MASK) { case IFF_TUN: if (tun->flags & IFF_NO_PI) { - switch (skb->data[0] & 0xf0) { - case 0x40: + u8 ip_version = skb->len ? (skb->data[0] >> 4) : 0; + + switch (ip_version) { + case 4: pi.proto = htons(ETH_P_IP); break; - case 0x60: + case 6: pi.proto = htons(ETH_P_IPV6); break; default: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from glider@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/tun-bail-out-from-tun_get_user-if-the-skb-is-empty.patch