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tipc: fix uninit-value in tipc_nl_compat_link_set
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commit edf5ff0 upstream.

syzbot reports following splat:

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in strlen+0x3b/0xa0 lib/string.c:486
CPU: 1 PID: 9306 Comm: syz-executor172 Not tainted 4.20.0-rc7+ #2
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
  dump_stack+0x173/0x1d0 lib/dump_stack.c:113
  kmsan_report+0x12e/0x2a0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:613
  __msan_warning+0x82/0xf0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:313
  strlen+0x3b/0xa0 lib/string.c:486
  nla_put_string include/net/netlink.h:1154 [inline]
  __tipc_nl_compat_link_set net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:708 [inline]
  tipc_nl_compat_link_set+0x929/0x1220 net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:744
  __tipc_nl_compat_doit net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:311 [inline]
  tipc_nl_compat_doit+0x3aa/0xaf0 net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:344
  tipc_nl_compat_handle net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:1107 [inline]
  tipc_nl_compat_recv+0x14d7/0x2760 net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:1210
  genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:601 [inline]
  genl_rcv_msg+0x185f/0x1a60 net/netlink/genetlink.c:626
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x444/0x640 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2477
  genl_rcv+0x63/0x80 net/netlink/genetlink.c:637
  netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1310 [inline]
  netlink_unicast+0xf40/0x1020 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1336
  netlink_sendmsg+0x127f/0x1300 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1917
  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:621 [inline]
  sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:631 [inline]
  ___sys_sendmsg+0xdb9/0x11b0 net/socket.c:2116
  __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2154 [inline]
  __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2163 [inline]
  __se_sys_sendmsg+0x305/0x460 net/socket.c:2161
  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x4a/0x70 net/socket.c:2161
  do_syscall_64+0xbc/0xf0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:291
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xe7

The uninitialised access happened in
    nla_put_string(skb, TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME, lc->name)

This is because lc->name string is not validated before it's used.

Reported-by: syzbot+d78b8a29241a195aefb8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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ying-xue authored and gregkh committed Jan 23, 2019
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
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Expand Up @@ -753,9 +753,14 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_link_set(struct tipc_nl_compat_cmd_doit *cmd,
struct tipc_link_config *lc;
struct tipc_bearer *bearer;
struct tipc_media *media;
int len;

lc = (struct tipc_link_config *)TLV_DATA(msg->req);

len = min_t(int, TLV_GET_DATA_LEN(msg->req), TIPC_MAX_LINK_NAME);
if (!string_is_valid(lc->name, len))
return -EINVAL;

media = tipc_media_find(lc->name);
if (media) {
cmd->doit = &tipc_nl_media_set;
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