[PATCH v2 3/3] kasan: initialise array in kasan_memcmp test

Daniel Axtens dja at axtens.net
Thu Jan 16 17:26:25 AEDT 2020


memcmp may bail out before accessing all the memory if the buffers
contain differing bytes. kasan_memcmp calls memcmp with a stack array.
Stack variables are not necessarily initialised (in the absence of a
compiler plugin, at least). Sometimes this causes the memcpy to bail
early thus fail to trigger kasan.

Make sure the array initialised to zero in the code.

No other test is dependent on the contents of an array on the stack.

Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider at google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
---
 lib/test_kasan.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/test_kasan.c b/lib/test_kasan.c
index a130d75b9385..519b0f259e97 100644
--- a/lib/test_kasan.c
+++ b/lib/test_kasan.c
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ static noinline void __init kasan_memcmp(void)
 {
 	char *ptr;
 	size_t size = 24;
-	int arr[9];
+	int arr[9] = {};
 
 	pr_info("out-of-bounds in memcmp\n");
 	ptr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
-- 
2.20.1



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