Re: [PATCH] ipv6: initialize treq->txhash in cookie_v6_check()

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Mon Jul 17 2017 - 03:39:15 EST


On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 18:54 +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> KMSAN reported use of uninitialized memory in skb_set_hash_from_sk(),
> which originated from the TCP request socket created in
> cookie_v6_check():

> ==================================================================
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/ipv6/syncookies.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/syncookies.c b/net/ipv6/syncookies.c
> index 7b75b0620730..b4b354502c6e 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/syncookies.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/syncookies.c
> @@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ struct sock *cookie_v6_check(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
> treq->rcv_isn = ntohl(th->seq) - 1;
> treq->snt_isn = cookie;
> treq->ts_off = 0;
> + treq->txhash = 0;
>
> /*
> * We need to lookup the dst_entry to get the correct window size.

Please use net_tx_rndhash() instead of 0, thanks.

( And same fix is needed for IPv4, as Neal mentioned already )