[alsa-devel] KMSAN: uninit-value in snd_midi_event_encode_byte

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 5:18 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 17:06:05 +0200,
> Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 5:00 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:54:23 +0200,
>> > Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> >>
>> >> https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md#kmsan-bugs
>> >> is meant to be a complement to the previous generic descriptions of
>> >> patch testing process, which is:
>> >> https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md#testing-patches
>> >>
>> >> So, you always reply to the syzbot+HASH email address so that syzbot
>> >> understands which bug we are talking about.
>> >> Then you do either (omitting # so that syzbot won't consider that as
>> >> actual test requests):
>> >>
>> >> syz test: git://repo/address.git branch
>> >>
>> >> or:
>> >>
>> >> syz test: git://repo/address.git commit-hash
>> >>
>> >> And then you can either attach a patch that needs to be applied on
>> >> top, or not attach it (if it's already in the tree, or you just want
>> >> to get another crash report).
>> >
>> > OK, so far, so good, it's what I knew and have done a few times.
>> >
>> >
>> >> For KMSAN you need to issue test request against
>> >> "https//github.com/google/kmsan.git master" (that's the only tree that
>> >> has KMSAN tool in it) and you need to attach/inline the patch (because
>> >> your patch is obviously not there yet).
>> >>
>> >> Does this make things more clear?
>> >
>> > Sorry, the part "issue test request against https..." still isn't
>> > clear.
>> >
>> > Do you mean to open an issue entry on github, and attach the patch
>> > there?
>>
>> By "issue test request" I mean sending email with "syz test" command.
>> So overall you send "syz test https//github.com/google/kmsan.git
>> master" and attach the patch.
>> The workflow is all the same, and no github involved. It's just that
>> you can't ask to test it against
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git because
>> it does not have KMSAN tool and so no KMSAN bugs will be detected
>> there.
>
> Thanks, this finally made me understanding the whole picture!
>
>> Since I did all of this, it's hard for me to write clear docs for others. Sorry.
>> If you can suggest some improved wording, it would be great.
>
> Well, how about like below?
>
>
> KMSAN is not upstream yet, though, we want to upstream it later. For
> now, it lives in github.com/google/kmsan and is based on a reasonably
> fresh upstream tree. As the result, any patch testing requests for
> KMSAN bugs need to go to KMSAN tree
> (https://github.com/google/kmsan.git repo, master branch).
> A standard way for triggering the test with KMSAN tree is to send an
> email to syzbot+HASH address containing the following line:
>
>   #syz test: https://github.com/google/kmsan.git master
>
> and attach/inline your test patch in the same mail.


Done:
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/commit/3ea6c028b154d2faea45142bfb15b02f3243800c#diff-5b3b5ff5f03b01e1d31ec93aafd2f3d5

Thanks