Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Johannes Thumshirn <> | Subject | [PATCH] nvme: initialize hostid uuid in nvmf_host_default to not leak kernel memory | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2018 16:20:43 +0100 |
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Alexander reports: according to KMSAN (and common sense as well) the following code in drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c (http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c#L68):
72 host = kmalloc(sizeof(*host), GFP_KERNEL); 73 if (!host) 74 return NULL; 75 76 kref_init(&host->ref); 77 snprintf(host->nqn, NVMF_NQN_SIZE, 78 "nqn.2014-08.org.nvmexpress:uuid:%pUb", &host->id);
uses uninitialized heap memory to generate the unique id for the NVMF host. If I'm understanding correctly, it can be then passed to the userspace, so the contents of the uninitialized chunk may potentially leak. If the specification doesn't rely on this UID to be random or unique, I suggest using kzalloc() here, otherwise it might be a good idea to use a real RNG.
this assumption is correct so initialize the host->id using uuid_gen() as it was done before commit 6bfe04255d5e ("nvme: add hostid token to fabric options").
Fixes: 6bfe04255d5e ("nvme: add hostid token to fabric options") Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> --- drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c b/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c index 76b4fe6816a0..894c2ccb3891 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ static struct nvmf_host *nvmf_host_default(void) return NULL; kref_init(&host->ref); + uuid_gen(&host->id); snprintf(host->nqn, NVMF_NQN_SIZE, "nqn.2014-08.org.nvmexpress:uuid:%pUb", &host->id); -- 2.13.6
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