On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM Colin King (gmail) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Static analysis on linux-next has found an issue with the following commit: > > commit ffc3634b66967445f3368c3b53a42bccc52b2c7f > Author: Eugenio Pérez <[email protected]> > Date: Thu Sep 25 11:13:32 2025 +0200 > > vduse: add vq group support > > > This issue is as follows in function vhost_vdpa_vring_ioct: > > case VHOST_VDPA_GET_VRING_GROUP: { > u64 group; > > if (!ops->get_vq_group) > return -EOPNOTSUPP; > s.index = idx; > group = ops->get_vq_group(vdpa, idx); > if (group >= vdpa->ngroups || group > U32_MAX || group < 0) > return -EIO; > else if (copy_to_user(argp, &s, sizeof(s))) > return -EFAULT; > s.num = group; > return 0; > } > > > The copy_to_user of struct s is copying a partially initialized struct > s, field s.num contains garbage data from the stack and this is being > copied back to user space. Field s.num should be assigned some value > before the copy_to_user call to avoid uninitialized data from the stack > being leaked to user space. >
That's right! v5 of the patch fixes the issue. Thanks!

