This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mbcache: initialize entry->e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create() to the 4.14-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: mbcache-initialize-entry-e_referenced-in-mb_cache_entry_create.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3876bbe27d04b848750d5310a37d6b76b593f648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 16:22:35 -0500 Subject: mbcache: initialize entry->e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create() From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 3876bbe27d04b848750d5310a37d6b76b593f648 upstream. KMSAN reported use of uninitialized |entry->e_referenced| in a condition in mb_cache_shrink(): ================================================================== BUG: KMSAN: use of uninitialized memory in mb_cache_shrink+0x3b4/0xc50 fs/mbcache.c:287 CPU: 2 PID: 816 Comm: kswapd1 Not tainted 4.11.0-rc5+ #2877 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16 [inline] dump_stack+0x172/0x1c0 lib/dump_stack.c:52 kmsan_report+0x12a/0x180 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:927 __msan_warning_32+0x61/0xb0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:469 mb_cache_shrink+0x3b4/0xc50 fs/mbcache.c:287 mb_cache_scan+0x67/0x80 fs/mbcache.c:321 do_shrink_slab mm/vmscan.c:397 [inline] shrink_slab+0xc3d/0x12d0 mm/vmscan.c:500 shrink_node+0x208f/0x2fd0 mm/vmscan.c:2603 kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:3172 [inline] balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:3289 [inline] kswapd+0x160f/0x2850 mm/vmscan.c:3478 kthread+0x46c/0x5f0 kernel/kthread.c:230 ret_from_fork+0x29/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:430 chained origin: save_stack_trace+0x37/0x40 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59 kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:302 [inline] kmsan_save_stack mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:317 [inline] kmsan_internal_chain_origin+0x12a/0x1f0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:547 __msan_store_shadow_origin_1+0xac/0x110 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:257 mb_cache_entry_create+0x3b3/0xc60 fs/mbcache.c:95 ext4_xattr_cache_insert fs/ext4/xattr.c:1647 [inline] ext4_xattr_block_set+0x4c82/0x5530 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1022 ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x1332/0x20a0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1252 ext4_xattr_set+0x4d2/0x680 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1306 ext4_xattr_trusted_set+0x8d/0xa0 fs/ext4/xattr_trusted.c:36 __vfs_setxattr+0x703/0x790 fs/xattr.c:149 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x27a/0x6f0 fs/xattr.c:180 vfs_setxattr fs/xattr.c:223 [inline] setxattr+0x6ae/0x790 fs/xattr.c:449 path_setxattr+0x1eb/0x380 fs/xattr.c:468 SYSC_lsetxattr+0x8d/0xb0 fs/xattr.c:490 SyS_lsetxattr+0x77/0xa0 fs/xattr.c:486 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x94 origin: save_stack_trace+0x37/0x40 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59 kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:302 [inline] kmsan_internal_poison_shadow+0xb1/0x1a0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:198 kmsan_kmalloc+0x7f/0xe0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:337 kmem_cache_alloc+0x1c2/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:2766 mb_cache_entry_create+0x283/0xc60 fs/mbcache.c:86 ext4_xattr_cache_insert fs/ext4/xattr.c:1647 [inline] ext4_xattr_block_set+0x4c82/0x5530 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1022 ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x1332/0x20a0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1252 ext4_xattr_set+0x4d2/0x680 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1306 ext4_xattr_trusted_set+0x8d/0xa0 fs/ext4/xattr_trusted.c:36 __vfs_setxattr+0x703/0x790 fs/xattr.c:149 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x27a/0x6f0 fs/xattr.c:180 vfs_setxattr fs/xattr.c:223 [inline] setxattr+0x6ae/0x790 fs/xattr.c:449 path_setxattr+0x1eb/0x380 fs/xattr.c:468 SYSC_lsetxattr+0x8d/0xb0 fs/xattr.c:490 SyS_lsetxattr+0x77/0xa0 fs/xattr.c:486 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x94 ================================================================== Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.6 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/mbcache.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/mbcache.c +++ b/fs/mbcache.c @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ int mb_cache_entry_create(struct mb_cach entry->e_key = key; entry->e_value = value; entry->e_reusable = reusable; + entry->e_referenced = 0; head = mb_cache_entry_head(cache, key); hlist_bl_lock(head); hlist_bl_for_each_entry(dup, dup_node, head, e_hash_list) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from glider@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/mbcache-initialize-entry-e_referenced-in-mb_cache_entry_create.patch