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KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/11/04 11:29
Subsystems: net
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Reported-by: syzbot+0e665e4b99cb925286a0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 81d, last: 16h22m
Discussions (2)
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[PATCH] memset skb to zero to avoid uninit value error from KMSAN 2 (3) 2025/12/07 17:54
[syzbot] [net?] KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame (2) 0 (1) 2025/11/04 11:29
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame net 7 1 2101d 2101d 15/29 fixed on 2020/05/10 10:41

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame+0x2f6/0x5410 drivers/net/macsec.c:1148
 macsec_handle_frame+0x2f6/0x5410 drivers/net/macsec.c:1148
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0xf8c/0x4d10 net/core/dev.c:6024
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6135 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb+0xcc/0xac0 net/core/dev.c:6250
 process_backlog+0x47c/0x9f0 net/core/dev.c:6602
 __napi_poll+0xd8/0x880 net/core/dev.c:7666
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7729 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0xa3f/0x1c90 net/core/dev.c:7881
 handle_softirqs+0x169/0x6e0 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq+0x14/0x1b kernel/softirq.c:656
 do_softirq+0x99/0x100 kernel/softirq.c:523
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xa1/0xb0 kernel/softirq.c:450
 local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
 netif_rx+0xdb/0x3f0 net/core/dev.c:5703
 pn_send+0x95b/0xb80 net/phonet/af_phonet.c:185
 pn_skb_send+0x462/0xa70 net/phonet/af_phonet.c:272
 pipe_handler_request net/phonet/pep.c:144 [inline]
 pep_sock_connect+0x2af/0x490 net/phonet/pep.c:895
 pn_socket_connect+0x576/0xd10 net/phonet/socket.c:255
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2089 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x51a/0x680 net/socket.c:2108
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2114 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2111 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x95/0x100 net/socket.c:2111
 x64_sys_call+0x3afb/0x3e70 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:43
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xd9/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4960 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x9e7/0x17a0 mm/slub.c:5315
 kmalloc_reserve+0x13c/0x4b0 net/core/skbuff.c:586
 __alloc_skb+0x866/0x10a0 net/core/skbuff.c:690
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1383 [inline]
 pn_raw_send+0x59/0x510 net/phonet/af_phonet.c:207
 send_reset_indications+0x139/0x1c0 net/phonet/af_phonet.c:344
 phonet_rcv+0x1478/0x1830 net/phonet/af_phonet.c:409
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6137 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb+0x477/0xac0 net/core/dev.c:6250
 process_backlog+0x47c/0x9f0 net/core/dev.c:6602
 __napi_poll+0xd8/0x880 net/core/dev.c:7666
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7729 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0xa3f/0x1c90 net/core/dev.c:7881
 handle_softirqs+0x169/0x6e0 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq+0x14/0x1b kernel/softirq.c:656

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7991 Comm: syz.4.434 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(none) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
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Crashes (15):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/21 02:08 upstream d8ba32c5a460 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/12/11 19:35 upstream d358e5254674 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/12/06 14:55 upstream 416f99c3b16f d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/12/04 00:40 upstream 3f9f0252130e d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/11/28 04:05 upstream 765e56e41a5a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/11/23 10:46 upstream 89edd36fd801 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/10/24 19:21 upstream 6fab32bb6508 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/12/17 03:25 upstream 40fbbd64bba6 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/11/19 17:08 upstream 8b690556d8fe 26ee5237 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/10/29 17:18 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/10/10 08:20 upstream 5472d60c129f ff1712fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/10/09 18:47 upstream ec714e371f22 7e2882b3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/10/09 18:46 upstream ec714e371f22 7e2882b3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/10/09 18:45 upstream ec714e371f22 7e2882b3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
2025/10/01 08:33 upstream 50c19e20ed2e 65a0eece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root KMSAN: uninit-value in macsec_handle_frame
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.