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From: lzhan011 <lzsx618@gmail.com>
To: nathan@kernel.org, nsc@kernel.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/9] kbuild: fix memory safety and UB bugs in host tools found by fuzzing
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 2026 05:40:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261005104050.1786222-1-lzsx618@gmail.com> (raw)

From: lzhan011 <zhangleizhen645@gmail.com>

This series fixes bugs in kbuild host programs found by building them
with AddressSanitizer and UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer and fuzzing their
inputs. Most patches include a reproducer.

Patches 1 and 2 fix bugs that also trigger without sanitizers:

 - kconfig: a string/int/hex symbol whose default is a choice member
   gets a NULL value and crashes conf (since v6.11).
 - genksyms: a declaration such as "int a, f(int);" makes genksyms loop
   forever while allocating memory (since v6.14; earlier versions
   silently recorded wrong types for such declarations).

Patches 3-9 fix out-of-bounds reads (fixdep, modpost) and undefined
behaviour reported by UBSan (kallsyms, modpost, sorttable,
tools/include byteshift helpers), several of which trigger on every
normal x86_64 build when the host tools are built with UBSan.

The series is based on next-20261002. With it applied, a defconfig +
MODULES + MODVERSIONS x86_64 build succeeds; for kconfig, the generated
.config files for the def/allyes/allno/allmod/rand configs on seven
architectures are unchanged, and for genksyms, the symtypes/CRCs of 149
preprocessed kernel sources are unchanged.

lzhan011 (9):
  kconfig: fix NULL pointer dereference for defaults taken from choice
    members
  genksyms: fix infinite loop on declarations with parameter lists
  fixdep: fix out-of-bounds read on a comment ending with a backslash
  kallsyms: do not call qsort() with a NULL table
  modpost: fix stack out-of-bounds read for unterminated PNP ids
  modpost: fix handling of short reads in read_text_file()
  modpost: fix pointer arithmetic on NULL in parse_source_files()
  sorttable: avoid pointer arithmetic overflow when locating sort_needed
  tools/include: fix signed shift overflow in 32-bit unaligned accessors

 scripts/basic/fixdep.c             |  2 +-
 scripts/genksyms/parse.y           | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
 scripts/kallsyms.c                 |  6 ++++--
 scripts/kconfig/symbol.c           |  4 ++--
 scripts/mod/file2alias.c           | 10 ++++++----
 scripts/mod/modpost.c              |  6 +++++-
 scripts/mod/sumversion.c           |  3 ++-
 scripts/sorttable.c                |  2 +-
 tools/include/tools/be_byteshift.h |  2 +-
 tools/include/tools/le_byteshift.h |  2 +-
 10 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2026-10-05 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-05 10:40 lzhan011 [this message]
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 1/9] kconfig: fix NULL pointer dereference for defaults taken from choice members lzhan011
2026-10-08 16:04   ` Julian Braha
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 2/9] genksyms: fix infinite loop on declarations with parameter lists lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 3/9] fixdep: fix out-of-bounds read on a comment ending with a backslash lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 4/9] kallsyms: do not call qsort() with a NULL table lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 5/9] modpost: fix stack out-of-bounds read for unterminated PNP ids lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 6/9] modpost: fix handling of short reads in read_text_file() lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 7/9] modpost: fix pointer arithmetic on NULL in parse_source_files() lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 8/9] sorttable: avoid pointer arithmetic overflow when locating sort_needed lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 9/9] tools/include: fix signed shift overflow in 32-bit unaligned accessors lzhan011

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