netdev - [PATCH net 2/8] netlink: fix uninit-value in netlink

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Date:   Sat,  7 Apr 2018 13:42:37 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 2/8] netlink: fix uninit-value in netlink_sendmsg

syzbot reported :

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ffs arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:432 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in netlink_sendmsg+0xb26/0x1310 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1851

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
---
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index fa556fdef57d8a684bd73de05821514482db2eea..55342c4d5cec6a999065aa1c9607bdf476c59d36 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1844,6 +1844,8 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len)
 
 	if (msg->msg_namelen) {
 		err = -EINVAL;
+		if (msg->msg_namelen < sizeof(struct sockaddr_nl))
+			goto out;
 		if (addr->nl_family != AF_NETLINK)
 			goto out;
 		dst_portid = addr->nl_pid;
-- 
2.17.0.484.g0c8726318c-goog