netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: Fix uninitialized number of lanes

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Message-ID: <20230502130321.GB525452@unreal>
Date:   Tue, 2 May 2023 16:03:21 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, danieller@...dia.com,
        mlxsw@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: Fix uninitialized number of lanes

On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 03:20:50PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> It is not possible to set the number of lanes when setting link modes
> using the legacy IOCTL ethtool interface. Since 'struct
> ethtool_link_ksettings' is not initialized in this path, drivers receive
> an uninitialized number of lanes in 'struct
> ethtool_link_ksettings::lanes'.
> 
> When this information is later queried from drivers, it results in the
> ethtool code making decisions based on uninitialized memory, leading to
> the following KMSAN splat [1]. In practice, this most likely only
> happens with the tun driver that simply returns whatever it got in the
> set operation.
> 
> As far as I can tell, this uninitialized memory is not leaked to user
> space thanks to the 'ethtool_ops->cap_link_lanes_supported' check in
> linkmodes_prepare_data().
> 
> Fix by initializing the structure in the IOCTL path. Did not find any
> more call sites that pass an uninitialized structure when calling
> 'ethtool_ops::set_link_ksettings()'.
> 
> [1]
> BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ethnl_update_linkmodes net/ethtool/linkmodes.c:273 [inline]
> BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ethnl_set_linkmodes+0x190b/0x19d0 net/ethtool/linkmodes.c:333
>  ethnl_update_linkmodes net/ethtool/linkmodes.c:273 [inline]
>  ethnl_set_linkmodes+0x190b/0x19d0 net/ethtool/linkmodes.c:333
>  ethnl_default_set_doit+0x88d/0xde0 net/ethtool/netlink.c:640
>  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:968 [inline]
>  genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1048 [inline]
>  genl_rcv_msg+0x141a/0x14c0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1065
>  netlink_rcv_skb+0x3f8/0x750 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2577
>  genl_rcv+0x40/0x60 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1076
>  netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339 [inline]
>  netlink_unicast+0xf41/0x1270 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1365
>  netlink_sendmsg+0x127d/0x1430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1942
>  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:724 [inline]
>  sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:747 [inline]
>  ____sys_sendmsg+0xa24/0xe40 net/socket.c:2501
>  ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a1/0x3f0 net/socket.c:2555
>  __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline]
>  __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2593 [inline]
>  __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2591 [inline]
>  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x36b/0x540 net/socket.c:2591
>  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
>  do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
> 
> Uninit was stored to memory at:
>  tun_get_link_ksettings+0x37/0x60 drivers/net/tun.c:3544
>  __ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0x17b/0x260 net/ethtool/ioctl.c:441
>  ethnl_set_linkmodes+0xee/0x19d0 net/ethtool/linkmodes.c:327
>  ethnl_default_set_doit+0x88d/0xde0 net/ethtool/netlink.c:640
>  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:968 [inline]
>  genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1048 [inline]
>  genl_rcv_msg+0x141a/0x14c0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1065
>  netlink_rcv_skb+0x3f8/0x750 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2577
>  genl_rcv+0x40/0x60 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1076
>  netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339 [inline]
>  netlink_unicast+0xf41/0x1270 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1365
>  netlink_sendmsg+0x127d/0x1430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1942
>  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:724 [inline]
>  sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:747 [inline]
>  ____sys_sendmsg+0xa24/0xe40 net/socket.c:2501
>  ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a1/0x3f0 net/socket.c:2555
>  __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline]
>  __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2593 [inline]
>  __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2591 [inline]
>  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x36b/0x540 net/socket.c:2591
>  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
>  do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
> 
> Uninit was stored to memory at:
>  tun_set_link_ksettings+0x37/0x60 drivers/net/tun.c:3553
>  ethtool_set_link_ksettings+0x600/0x690 net/ethtool/ioctl.c:609
>  __dev_ethtool net/ethtool/ioctl.c:3024 [inline]
>  dev_ethtool+0x1db9/0x2a70 net/ethtool/ioctl.c:3078
>  dev_ioctl+0xb07/0x1270 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:524
>  sock_do_ioctl+0x295/0x540 net/socket.c:1213
>  sock_ioctl+0x729/0xd90 net/socket.c:1316
>  vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
>  __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
>  __se_sys_ioctl+0x222/0x400 fs/ioctl.c:856
>  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x96/0xe0 fs/ioctl.c:856
>  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
>  do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
> 
> Local variable link_ksettings created at:
>  ethtool_set_link_ksettings+0x54/0x690 net/ethtool/ioctl.c:577
>  __dev_ethtool net/ethtool/ioctl.c:3024 [inline]
>  dev_ethtool+0x1db9/0x2a70 net/ethtool/ioctl.c:3078
> 
> Fixes: 012ce4dd3102 ("ethtool: Extend link modes settings uAPI with lanes")
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+ef6edd9f1baaa54d6235@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/0000000000004bb41105fa70f361@google.com/
> Reviewed-by: Danielle Ratson <danieller@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
> ---
>  net/ethtool/ioctl.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>