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Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH net] ipvs: Fix uninit-value in do_ip_v

To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH net] ipvs: Fix uninit-value in do_ip_vs_set_ctl()
Cc: Wensong Zhang <wensong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, lvs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, NetFilter <netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, coreteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel-mentees@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 01:09:29 -0400
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@xxxxxxxxx> 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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