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Tetsuo Handaksacilotto
Tetsuo Handa
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misc: vmw_vmci: explicitly initialize vmci_datagram payload
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1929615 commit b2192cf upstream. KMSAN complains that vmci_check_host_caps() left the payload part of check_msg uninitialized. ===================================================== 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 ===================================================== Fixes: 1f16643 ("VMCI: guest side driver implementation.") Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <[email protected]>
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drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c

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@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int vmci_check_host_caps(struct pci_dev *pdev)
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VMCI_UTIL_NUM_RESOURCES * sizeof(u32);
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struct vmci_datagram *check_msg;
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check_msg = kmalloc(msg_size, GFP_KERNEL);
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check_msg = kzalloc(msg_size, GFP_KERNEL);
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if (!check_msg) {
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dev_err(&pdev->dev, "%s: Insufficient memory\n", __func__);
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return -ENOMEM;

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