Re: [PATCH] net: initialize local variables in net/ipv6/mcast.c and net/ipv4/igmp.c

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Apr 02 2021 - 16:53:58 EST




On 4/2/21 8:10 PM, Phillip Potter wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 07:49:44PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
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>> On 4/2/21 7:36 PM, Phillip Potter wrote:
>>> Use memset to initialize two local buffers in net/ipv6/mcast.c,
>>> and another in net/ipv4/igmp.c. Fixes a KMSAN found uninit-value
>>> bug reported by syzbot at:
>>> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=0766d38c656abeace60621896d705743aeefed51
>>
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>> According to this link, the bug no longer triggers.
>>
>> Please explain why you think it is still there.
>>
>
> Dear Eric,
>
> It definitely still triggers, tested it on the master branch of
> https://github.com/google/kmsan last night. The patch which fixes the
> crash on that page is the same patch I've sent in.

Please send the full report (stack trace)

Thanks.