This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
misc: vmw_vmci: explicitly initialize vmci_datagram payload
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-testing branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will be merged to the char-misc-next branch sometime soon,
after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From b2192cfeba8481224da0a4ec3b4a7ccd80b1623b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 21:17:42 +0900
Subject: misc: vmw_vmci: explicitly initialize vmci_datagram payload
KMSAN complains that vmci_check_host_caps() left the payload part of
check_msg uninitialized.
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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in kmsan_check_memory+0xd/0x10
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G B 5.11.0-rc7+ #4
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 02/27/2020
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x21c/0x280
kmsan_report+0xfb/0x1e0
kmsan_internal_check_memory+0x202/0x520
kmsan_check_memory+0xd/0x10
iowrite8_rep+0x86/0x380
vmci_guest_probe_device+0xf0b/0x1e70
pci_device_probe+0xab3/0xe70
really_probe+0xd16/0x24d0
driver_probe_device+0x29d/0x3a0
device_driver_attach+0x25a/0x490
__driver_attach+0x78c/0x840
bus_for_each_dev+0x210/0x340
driver_attach+0x89/0xb0
bus_add_driver+0x677/0xc40
driver_register+0x485/0x8e0
__pci_register_driver+0x1ff/0x350
vmci_guest_init+0x3e/0x41
vmci_drv_init+0x1d6/0x43f
do_one_initcall+0x39c/0x9a0
do_initcall_level+0x1d7/0x259
do_initcalls+0x127/0x1cb
do_basic_setup+0x33/0x36
kernel_init_freeable+0x29a/0x3ed
kernel_init+0x1f/0x840
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
Uninit was created at:
kmsan_internal_poison_shadow+0x5c/0xf0
kmsan_slab_alloc+0x8d/0xe0
kmem_cache_alloc+0x84f/0xe30
vmci_guest_probe_device+0xd11/0x1e70
pci_device_probe+0xab3/0xe70
really_probe+0xd16/0x24d0
driver_probe_device+0x29d/0x3a0
device_driver_attach+0x25a/0x490
__driver_attach+0x78c/0x840
bus_for_each_dev+0x210/0x340
driver_attach+0x89/0xb0
bus_add_driver+0x677/0xc40
driver_register+0x485/0x8e0
__pci_register_driver+0x1ff/0x350
vmci_guest_init+0x3e/0x41
vmci_drv_init+0x1d6/0x43f
do_one_initcall+0x39c/0x9a0
do_initcall_level+0x1d7/0x259
do_initcalls+0x127/0x1cb
do_basic_setup+0x33/0x36
kernel_init_freeable+0x29a/0x3ed
kernel_init+0x1f/0x840
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
Bytes 28-31 of 36 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 36 starts at ffff8881675e5f00
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Fixes: 1f166439917b69d3 ("VMCI: guest side driver implementation.")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210402121742.3917-2-penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c
index cc8eeb361fcd..1018dc77269d 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int vmci_check_host_caps(struct pci_dev *pdev)
VMCI_UTIL_NUM_RESOURCES * sizeof(u32);
struct vmci_datagram *check_msg;
- check_msg = kmalloc(msg_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ check_msg = kzalloc(msg_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!check_msg) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "%s: Insufficient memory\n", __func__);
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.31.1
