Commit 7b821da55b3f for kernel
commit 7b821da55b3f88c1703ff2c2074d182295a84f6b
Author: Tabrez Ahmed <tabreztalks@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Feb 17 19:23:49 2026 +0530
rds: tcp: fix uninit-value in __inet_bind
KMSAN reported an uninit-value access in __inet_bind() when binding
an RDS TCP socket.
The uninitialized memory originates from rds_tcp_conn_alloc(),
which uses kmem_cache_alloc() to allocate the rds_tcp_connection structure.
Specifically, the field 't_client_port_group' is incremented in
rds_tcp_conn_path_connect() without being initialized first:
if (++tc->t_client_port_group >= port_groups)
Since kmem_cache_alloc() does not zero the memory, this field contains
garbage, leading to the KMSAN report.
Fix this by using kmem_cache_zalloc() to ensure the structure is
zero-initialized upon allocation.
Reported-by: syzbot+aae646f09192f72a68dc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=aae646f09192f72a68dc
Tested-by: syzbot+aae646f09192f72a68dc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: a20a6992558f ("net/rds: Encode cp_index in TCP source port")
Signed-off-by: Tabrez Ahmed <tabreztalks@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Charalampos Mitrodimas <charmitro@posteo.net>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260217135350.33641-1-tabreztalks@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
diff --git a/net/rds/tcp.c b/net/rds/tcp.c
index 45484a93d75f..04f310255692 100644
--- a/net/rds/tcp.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp.c
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ static int rds_tcp_conn_alloc(struct rds_connection *conn, gfp_t gfp)
int ret = 0;
for (i = 0; i < RDS_MPATH_WORKERS; i++) {
- tc = kmem_cache_alloc(rds_tcp_conn_slab, gfp);
+ tc = kmem_cache_zalloc(rds_tcp_conn_slab, gfp);
if (!tc) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto fail;