netdev - Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in br_mdb_ip

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Date:   Wed, 29 May 2019 22:58:45 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
        syzbot <syzbot+bc5ab0af2dbf3b0ae897@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in br_mdb_ip_get

Hi Dmitry:

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:54:42AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>
> Taking into account that this still happened only once, I tend to
> write it off onto a previous silent memory corruption (we have dozens
> of known bugs that corrupt memory). So if several people already
> looked at it and don't see the root cause, it's probably time to stop
> spending time on this until we have more info.
> 
> Although, there was also this one:
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller-bugs/QfCCSxdB1aM/y2cn9IZJCwAJ
> I have not checked if it can be the root cause of this report, but it
> points suspiciously close to this stack and when I looked at it, it
> the report looked legit.

Have you had any more reports of this kind coming from br_multicast?

It looks like

ommit 1515a63fc413f160d20574ab0894e7f1020c7be2
Author: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 3 23:27:24 2019 +0300

    net: bridge: always clear mcast matching struct on reports and leaves

may have at least fixed the uninitialised value error.

Thanks,
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