linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] selinux: check for address length in selinux_socket

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Date:   Wed, 08 Mar 2017 23:12:08 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     glider@...gle.com
Cc:     dvyukov@...gle.com, kcc@...gle.com, keescook@...omium.org,
        edumazet@...gle.com, paul@...l-moore.com, sds@...ho.nsa.gov,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        selinux@...ho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] selinux: check for address length in
 selinux_socket_bind()

From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Date: Mon,  6 Mar 2017 19:46:14 +0100

> KMSAN (KernelMemorySanitizer, a new error detection tool) reports use of
> uninitialized memory in selinux_socket_bind():
 ...
> (the line numbers are relative to 4.8-rc6, but the bug persists upstream)
> 
> , when I run the following program as root:
 ...
> (for different values of |size| other error reports are printed).
> 
> This happens because bind() unconditionally copies |size| bytes of
> |addr| to the kernel, leaving the rest uninitialized. Then
> security_socket_bind() reads the IP address bytes, including the
> uninitialized ones, to determine the port, or e.g. pass them further to
> sel_netnode_find(), which uses them to calculate a hash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>

Are the SELINUX folks going to pick this up or should I?