Re: [PATCH 1/1] selinux: netlabel: Prevent KMSAN warning in selinux_inet_conn_request()

From: Paul Moore
Date: Tue Aug 15 2023 - 18:24:16 EST


On Aug 15, 2023 Andrew Kanner <andrew.kanner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> KMSAN reports the following issue:
> [ 81.822503] =====================================================
> [ 81.823222] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in selinux_inet_conn_request+0x2c8/0x4b0
> [ 81.823891] selinux_inet_conn_request+0x2c8/0x4b0
> [ 81.824385] security_inet_conn_request+0xc0/0x160
> [ 81.824886] tcp_v4_route_req+0x30e/0x490
> [ 81.825343] tcp_conn_request+0xdc8/0x3400
> [ 81.825813] tcp_v4_conn_request+0x134/0x190
> [ 81.826292] tcp_rcv_state_process+0x1f4/0x3b40
> [ 81.826797] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x9ca/0xc30
> [ 81.827236] tcp_v4_rcv+0x3bf5/0x4180
> [ 81.827670] ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x822/0x1230
> [ 81.828174] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x259/0x370
> [ 81.828667] ip_local_deliver+0x1c0/0x450
> [ 81.829105] ip_sublist_rcv+0xdc1/0xf50
> [ 81.829534] ip_list_rcv+0x72e/0x790
> [ 81.829941] __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x10d5/0x1180
> [ 81.830499] netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0xc41/0x1190
> [ 81.831064] napi_complete_done+0x2c4/0x8b0
> [ 81.831532] e1000_clean+0x12bf/0x4d90
> [ 81.831983] __napi_poll+0xa6/0x760
> [ 81.832391] net_rx_action+0x84c/0x1550
> [ 81.832831] __do_softirq+0x272/0xa6c
> [ 81.833239] __irq_exit_rcu+0xb7/0x1a0
> [ 81.833654] irq_exit_rcu+0x17/0x40
> [ 81.834044] common_interrupt+0x8d/0xa0
> [ 81.834494] asm_common_interrupt+0x2b/0x40
> [ 81.834949] default_idle+0x17/0x20
> [ 81.835356] arch_cpu_idle+0xd/0x20
> [ 81.835766] default_idle_call+0x43/0x70
> [ 81.836210] do_idle+0x258/0x800
> [ 81.836581] cpu_startup_entry+0x26/0x30
> [ 81.837002] __pfx_ap_starting+0x0/0x10
> [ 81.837444] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x17a/0x17b
> [ 81.837979]
> [ 81.838166] Local variable nlbl_type.i created at:
> [ 81.838596] selinux_inet_conn_request+0xe3/0x4b0
> [ 81.839078] security_inet_conn_request+0xc0/0x160
>
> KMSAN warning is reproducible with:
> * netlabel_mgmt_protocount is 0 (e.g. netlbl_enabled() returns 0)
> * CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM may be set or not
> * CONFIG_KMSAN=y
> * `ssh USER@HOSTNAME /bin/date`
>
> selinux_skb_peerlbl_sid() will call selinux_xfrm_skb_sid(), then fall
> to selinux_netlbl_skbuff_getsid() which will not initialize nlbl_type,
> but it will be passed to:
>
> err = security_net_peersid_resolve(nlbl_sid,
> nlbl_type, xfrm_sid, sid);
>
> and checked by KMSAN, although it will not be used inside
> security_net_peersid_resolve() (at least now), since this function
> will check either (xfrm_sid == SECSID_NULL) or (nlbl_sid ==
> SECSID_NULL) first and return before using uninitialized nlbl_type.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Kanner <andrew.kanner@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 220deb966ea5 ("SELinux: Better integration between peer labeling subsystems")
> ---
> security/selinux/netlabel.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Thanks Andrew. I'm going to drop the "Fixes" tag as the current code
isn't broken, as you mention in the commit description above, however,
I think this change is still worthwhile so I'm going to go ahead and
merge it into selinux/next.

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