Re: [PATCH] net: tun: set tun->dev->addr_len during TUNSETLINK processing

From: Phillip Potter
Date: Tue Apr 06 2021 - 13:39:04 EST


On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 07:26:29PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>
> On 4/5/21 1:35 PM, Phillip Potter wrote:
> > When changing type with TUNSETLINK ioctl command, set tun->dev->addr_len
> > to match the appropriate type, using new tun_get_addr_len utility function
> > which returns appropriate address length for given type. Fixes a
> > KMSAN-found uninit-value bug reported by syzbot at:
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=0766d38c656abeace60621896d705743aeefed51
> >
> > Reported-by: syzbot+001516d86dbe88862cec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Phillip Potter <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Please give credits to people who helped.
>
> You could have :
>
> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Or
> Diagnosed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Or at least CCed me :/
>

Dear Eric,

Please accept my apology for this oversight. It certainly wasn't
intentional on my part, and entirely down to inexperience. I will send
the patch again with Diagnosed-by.

Regards,
Phil