[syzbot] [rdma?] KMSAN: uninit-value in ib_nl_handle_ip_res_resp

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syzbot found the following issue on:

HEAD commit: 1896ce8eb6c6 Merge tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.k..
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=153d0092580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=6eca10e0cdef44f
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=938fcd548c303fe33c1a
compiler: Debian clang version 20.1.8 (++20250708063551+0c9f909b7976-1~exp1~20250708183702.136), Debian LLD 20.1.8
userspace arch: i386

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netlink: 8 bytes leftover after parsing attributes in process `syz.8.3246'.
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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hex_byte_pack include/linux/hex.h:13 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ip6_string+0xef4/0x13a0 lib/vsprintf.c:1490
hex_byte_pack include/linux/hex.h:13 [inline]
ip6_string+0xef4/0x13a0 lib/vsprintf.c:1490
ip6_addr_string+0x18a/0x3e0 lib/vsprintf.c:1509
ip_addr_string+0x245/0xee0 lib/vsprintf.c:1633
pointer+0xc09/0x1bd0 lib/vsprintf.c:2542
vsnprintf+0xf8a/0x1bd0 lib/vsprintf.c:2930
vprintk_store+0x3ae/0x1530 kernel/printk/printk.c:2279
vprintk_emit+0x307/0xcd0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2426
vprintk_default+0x3f/0x50 kernel/printk/printk.c:2465
vprintk+0x36/0x50 kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:82
_printk+0x17e/0x1b0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2475
ib_nl_process_good_ip_rsep drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c:128 [inline]
ib_nl_handle_ip_res_resp+0x963/0x9d0 drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c:141
rdma_nl_rcv_msg drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:-1 [inline]
rdma_nl_rcv_skb drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:239 [inline]
rdma_nl_rcv+0xefa/0x11c0 drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:259
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0xf04/0x12b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
netlink_sendmsg+0x10b3/0x1250 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x333/0x3d0 net/socket.c:729
____sys_sendmsg+0x7e0/0xd80 net/socket.c:2617
___sys_sendmsg+0x271/0x3b0 net/socket.c:2671
__sys_sendmsg+0x1aa/0x300 net/socket.c:2703
__compat_sys_sendmsg net/compat.c:346 [inline]
__do_compat_sys_sendmsg net/compat.c:353 [inline]
__se_compat_sys_sendmsg net/compat.c:350 [inline]
__ia32_compat_sys_sendmsg+0xa4/0x100 net/compat.c:350
ia32_sys_call+0x3f6c/0x4310 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:371
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:83 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0xb0/0x150 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:306
do_fast_syscall_32+0x38/0x80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:331
do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:369
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e

Local variable gid.i created at:
ib_nl_process_good_ip_rsep drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c:102 [inline]
ib_nl_handle_ip_res_resp+0x254/0x9d0 drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c:141
rdma_nl_rcv_msg drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:-1 [inline]
rdma_nl_rcv_skb drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:239 [inline]
rdma_nl_rcv+0xefa/0x11c0 drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:259

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 17455 Comm: syz.8.3246 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(none)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
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[Kohei Enju]

I see when gid is not initialized in nla_for_each_attr loop, this should
return early.

I think the splat occurrs when gid is not found, so a simple fix might
be like:

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
index be0743dac3ff..c03a308bcda5 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
@@ -103,15 +103,21 @@ static void ib_nl_process_good_ip_rsep(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
struct addr_req *req;
int len, rem;
int found = 0;
+ bool gid_found = false;

head = (const struct nlattr *)nlmsg_data(nlh);
len = nlmsg_len(nlh);

nla_for_each_attr(curr, head, len, rem) {
- if (curr->nla_type == LS_NLA_TYPE_DGID)
+ if (curr->nla_type == LS_NLA_TYPE_DGID) {
memcpy(&gid, nla_data(curr), nla_len(curr));
+ gid_found = true;
+ }
}

+ if (!gid_found)
+ return;
+
spin_lock_bh(&lock);
list_for_each_entry(req, &req_list, list) {
if (nlh->nlmsg_seq != req->seq)