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KMSAN: uninit-value in nci_dev_up (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/05/18 17:04
Subsystems: net nfc
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Reported-by: syzbot+46ca2592193f2fb3debc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d17h, last: 5d17h
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] nfc: nci: fix use of uninitialized memory in CORE_INIT_RSP parsing 1 (1) 2026/05/19 01:30
[syzbot] [net?] [nfc?] KMSAN: uninit-value in nci_dev_up (3) 0 (1) 2026/05/18 17:04
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KMSAN: uninit-value in nci_dev_up net nfc 7 C 7 786d 845d 25/29 fixed on 2024/05/22 23:16
upstream KMSAN: uninit-value in nci_dev_up (2) nfc net 7 C 34 229d 285d 29/29 fixed on 2025/10/29 21:02

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nci_init_complete_req net/nfc/nci/core.c:192 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __nci_request net/nfc/nci/core.c:108 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nci_open_device net/nfc/nci/core.c:529 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nci_dev_up+0x1110/0x1bb0 net/nfc/nci/core.c:643
 nci_init_complete_req net/nfc/nci/core.c:192 [inline]
 __nci_request net/nfc/nci/core.c:108 [inline]
 nci_open_device net/nfc/nci/core.c:529 [inline]
 nci_dev_up+0x1110/0x1bb0 net/nfc/nci/core.c:643
 nfc_dev_up+0x204/0x3d0 net/nfc/core.c:118
 nfc_genl_dev_up+0xe9/0x1c0 net/nfc/netlink.c:775
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x338/0x3f0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1114
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1194 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0xac5/0xc00 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x54d/0x680 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 genl_rcv+0x41/0x60 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1218
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0xee2/0x1290 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x10b2/0x1250 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xf37/0xfd0 net/socket.c:2698
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x271/0x3b0 net/socket.c:2752
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2784 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2789 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2787 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x211/0x3e0 net/socket.c:2787
 x64_sys_call+0x1e20/0x3ea0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:47
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x134/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Uninit was stored to memory at:
 nci_init_complete_req net/nfc/nci/core.c:192 [inline]
 __nci_request net/nfc/nci/core.c:108 [inline]
 nci_open_device net/nfc/nci/core.c:529 [inline]
 nci_dev_up+0x1109/0x1bb0 net/nfc/nci/core.c:643
 nfc_dev_up+0x204/0x3d0 net/nfc/core.c:118
 nfc_genl_dev_up+0xe9/0x1c0 net/nfc/netlink.c:775
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x338/0x3f0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1114
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1194 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0xac5/0xc00 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x54d/0x680 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 genl_rcv+0x41/0x60 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1218
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0xee2/0x1290 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x10b2/0x1250 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xf37/0xfd0 net/socket.c:2698
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x271/0x3b0 net/socket.c:2752
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2784 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2789 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2787 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x211/0x3e0 net/socket.c:2787
 x64_sys_call+0x1e20/0x3ea0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:47
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x134/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Uninit was stored to memory at:
 nci_core_init_rsp_packet_v2 net/nfc/nci/rsp.c:107 [inline]
 nci_core_init_rsp_packet net/nfc/nci/rsp.c:131 [inline]
 nci_rsp_packet+0x2c3b/0x2d70 net/nfc/nci/rsp.c:376
 nci_rx_work+0x48f/0x850 net/nfc/nci/core.c:1579
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3302 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb65/0x1e40 kernel/workqueue.c:3385
 worker_thread+0xee4/0x1590 kernel/workqueue.c:3466
 kthread+0x53f/0x600 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x20f/0x8d0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4576 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4898 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x3cd/0x12c0 mm/slub.c:4950
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:613 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x855/0x1190 net/core/skbuff.c:713
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1383 [inline]
 virtual_ncidev_write+0x6b/0x2a0 drivers/nfc/virtual_ncidev.c:120
 vfs_write+0x48a/0x15c0 fs/read_write.c:686
 ksys_write+0x1d9/0x470 fs/read_write.c:740
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:751 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:748 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x97/0xf0 fs/read_write.c:748
 x64_sys_call+0x2ff0/0x3ea0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x134/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7976 Comm: syz.2.570 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/14 16:52 upstream e1914add2799 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root KMSAN: uninit-value in nci_dev_up
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.