linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virtio_balloon: prevent uninitialized variable use

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Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2017 21:40:07 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Ladi Prosek <lprosek@...hat.com>
Cc:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com>,
        Konstantin Neumoin <kneumoin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        "Denis V. Lunev" <den@...nvz.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_balloon: prevent uninitialized variable use

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Ladi Prosek <lprosek@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:38 PM, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com> wrote:
>> On 23.03.2017 16:17, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> The latest gcc-7.0.1 snapshot reports a new warning:
>>>
>>> virtio/virtio_balloon.c: In function 'update_balloon_stats':
>>> virtio/virtio_balloon.c:258:26: error: 'events[2]' is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
>>> virtio/virtio_balloon.c:260:26: error: 'events[3]' is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
>>> virtio/virtio_balloon.c:261:56: error: 'events[18]' is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
>>> virtio/virtio_balloon.c:262:56: error: 'events[17]' is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
>>>
>>> This seems absolutely right, so we should add an extra check to
>>> prevent copying uninitialized stack data into the statistics.
>>> From all I can tell, this has been broken since the statistics code
>>> was originally added in 2.6.34.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 9564e138b1f6 ("virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver (V4)")
>>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 2 ++
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
>>> index 4e1191508228..cd5c54e2003d 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
>>> @@ -254,12 +254,14 @@ static void update_balloon_stats(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
>>>
>>>       available = si_mem_available();
>>>
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
>>>       update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_IN,
>>>                               pages_to_bytes(events[PSWPIN]));
>>>       update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_OUT,
>>>                               pages_to_bytes(events[PSWPOUT]));
>>>       update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MAJFLT, events[PGMAJFAULT]);
>>>       update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MINFLT, events[PGFAULT]);
>>> +#endif
>>>       update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMFREE,
>>>                               pages_to_bytes(i.freeram));
>>>       update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT,
>
> This will leave four uninitialized slots in vb->stats if
> CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS is not defined. update_balloon_stats should
> have
>
>   BUG_ON(idx < VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR);
>
> at the end.
>
> You need to make sure that vb->stats is smaller, either by using
> something else than VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR for its size or something else
> than sizeof(vb->stats) as the last argument to sg_init_one in this
> file.

Ah, got it. Would one of you create a fixed patch for this, or should I?

An easy way to solve it would be to preinitialize the events array
and return zeroes to the host, but I don't know if that's the right
solution.

Another option would be to return 'idx' from update_balloon_stats,
and use that for the size:

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index cd5c54e2003d..bea3cfb88e53 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ static inline void update_stat(struct
virtio_balloon *vb, int idx,

 #define pages_to_bytes(x) ((u64)(x) << PAGE_SHIFT)

-static void update_balloon_stats(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
+static unsigned int update_balloon_stats(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
 {
  unsigned long events[NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS];
  struct sysinfo i;
@@ -268,6 +268,8 @@ static void update_balloon_stats(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
  pages_to_bytes(i.totalram));
  update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL,
  pages_to_bytes(available));
+
+ return idx;
 }

 /*
@@ -294,13 +296,14 @@ static void stats_handle_request(struct
virtio_balloon *vb)
  struct virtqueue *vq;
  struct scatterlist sg;
  unsigned int len;
+ unsigned int num_stats;

- update_balloon_stats(vb);
+ num_stats = update_balloon_stats(vb);

  vq = vb->stats_vq;
  if (!virtqueue_get_buf(vq, &len))
  return;
- sg_init_one(&sg, vb->stats, sizeof(vb->stats));
+ sg_init_one(&sg, vb->stats, sizeof(vb->stats[0] * num_stats));
  virtqueue_add_outbuf(vq, &sg, 1, vb, GFP_KERNEL);
  virtqueue_kick(vq);
 }

     Arnd