linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] kasan: initialise array in kasan

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Date:   Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:07:32 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] kasan: initialise array in kasan_memcmp test

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:26 AM Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net> wrote:
>
> memcmp may bail out before accessing all the memory if the buffers
> contain differing bytes. kasan_memcmp calls memcmp with a stack array.
> Stack variables are not necessarily initialised (in the absence of a
> compiler plugin, at least). Sometimes this causes the memcpy to bail
> early thus fail to trigger kasan.
>
> Make sure the array initialised to zero in the code.
>
> No other test is dependent on the contents of an array on the stack.
>
> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>

Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>

> ---
>  lib/test_kasan.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/test_kasan.c b/lib/test_kasan.c
> index a130d75b9385..519b0f259e97 100644
> --- a/lib/test_kasan.c
> +++ b/lib/test_kasan.c
> @@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ static noinline void __init kasan_memcmp(void)
>  {
>         char *ptr;
>         size_t size = 24;
> -       int arr[9];
> +       int arr[9] = {};
>
>         pr_info("out-of-bounds in memcmp\n");
>         ptr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
> --
> 2.20.1
>
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