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SubjectRe: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH net] ipvs: Fix uninit-value in do_ip_vs_set_ctl()
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 08:57:19PM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 3:10 PM Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > do_ip_vs_set_ctl() is referencing uninitialized stack value when `len` is
> > zero. Fix it.
>
> Which exact 'cmd' is it here?
>
> I _guess_ it is one of those uninitialized in set_arglen[], which is 0.

Yes, it was `IP_VS_SO_SET_NONE`, implicitly initialized to zero.

> But if that is the case, should it be initialized to
> sizeof(struct ip_vs_service_user) instead because ip_vs_copy_usvc_compat()
> is called anyway. Or, maybe we should just ban len==0 case.

I see. I think the latter would be easier, but we cannot ban all of
them, since the function does something with `IP_VS_SO_SET_FLUSH`, which
is a `len == 0` case.

Maybe we do something like this?

@@ -2432,6 +2432,8 @@ do_ip_vs_set_ctl(struct sock *sk, int cmd, void __user *user, unsigned int len)

if (cmd < IP_VS_BASE_CTL || cmd > IP_VS_SO_SET_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
+ if (len == 0 && cmd != IP_VS_SO_SET_FLUSH)
+ return -EINVAL;
if (len != set_arglen[CMDID(cmd)]) {
IP_VS_DBG(1, "set_ctl: len %u != %u\n",
len, set_arglen[CMDID(cmd)]);
@@ -2547,9 +2549,6 @@ do_ip_vs_set_ctl(struct sock *sk, int cmd, void __user *user, unsigned int len)
break;
case IP_VS_SO_SET_DELDEST:
ret = ip_vs_del_dest(svc, &udest);
- break;
- default:
- ret = -EINVAL;
}

out_unlock:
Thank you,
Peilin Ye

> In either case, it does not look like you fix it correctly.
>
> Thanks.

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