Re: [PATCH] 9p: Transport error uninitialized

[Dominique Martinet]

Lu Shuaibing wrote on Thu, Jun 13, 2019:
> The p9_tag_alloc() does not initialize the transport error t_err field.
> The struct p9_req_t *req is allocated and stored in a struct p9_client
> variable. The field t_err is never initialized before p9_conn_cancel()
> checks its value.
> 
> KUMSAN(KernelUninitializedMemorySantizer, a new error detection tool)
> reports this bug.
> 
> ==================================================================
> BUG: KUMSAN: use of uninitialized memory in p9_conn_cancel+0x2d9/0x3b0
> Read of size 4 at addr ffff88805f9b600c by task kworker/1:2/1216
> 
> CPU: 1 PID: 1216 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted 5.2.0-rc4+ #28
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
> Workqueue: events p9_write_work
> Call Trace:
>  dump_stack+0x75/0xae
>  __kumsan_report+0x17c/0x3e6
>  kumsan_report+0xe/0x20
>  p9_conn_cancel+0x2d9/0x3b0
>  p9_write_work+0x183/0x4a0
>  process_one_work+0x4d1/0x8c0
>  worker_thread+0x6e/0x780
>  kthread+0x1ca/0x1f0
>  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
> 
> Allocated by task 1979:
>  save_stack+0x19/0x80
>  __kumsan_kmalloc.constprop.3+0xbc/0x120
>  kmem_cache_alloc+0xa7/0x170
>  p9_client_prepare_req.part.9+0x3b/0x380
>  p9_client_rpc+0x15e/0x880
>  p9_client_create+0x3d0/0xac0
>  v9fs_session_init+0x192/0xc80
>  v9fs_mount+0x67/0x470
>  legacy_get_tree+0x70/0xd0
>  vfs_get_tree+0x4a/0x1c0
>  do_mount+0xba9/0xf90
>  ksys_mount+0xa8/0x120
>  __x64_sys_mount+0x62/0x70
>  do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x1e0
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
> 
> Freed by task 0:
> (stack is not available)
> 
> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805f9b6008
>  which belongs to the cache p9_req_t of size 144
> The buggy address is located 4 bytes inside of
>  144-byte region [ffff88805f9b6008, ffff88805f9b6098)
> The buggy address belongs to the page:
> page:ffffea00017e6d80 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff888068b63740 index:0xffff88805f9b7d90 compound_mapcount: 0
> flags: 0x100000000010200(slab|head)
> raw: 0100000000010200 ffff888068b66450 ffff888068b66450 ffff888068b63740
> raw: ffff88805f9b7d90 0000000000100001 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
> page dumped because: kumsan: bad access detected
> ==================================================================
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lu Shuaibing <shuaibinglu@xxxxxxx>

Looks good to me, will queue it up for -next after I've had time to run
some tests - probably early next week.

This made me realize that this refcount_set is too late, it is possible
in theory to find the request with p9_tag_lookup as soon as the tag
alloc worked so both this req->t_err and refcount initialization should
go before the idr chunk with the other field initializations.

I also checked by the way that no other fields were forgotten, the only
field that is not initialized now is ->aux, but that field is never used
so it might be just as fast to remove the field instead...
I'll submit a couple of patches to move these two inits up and remove
the aux field when I find time.


Thanks!
-- 
Dominique