KMSAN reports the following error:

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BUG: KMSAN: use of unitialized memory
CPU: 0 PID: 1123 Comm: udevd Tainted: G    B           4.8.0-rc6+ #1435
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
 ffff88003e35fc88 ffff88003e35fca8 ffffffff82486c57 000000003e35fca8
 ffffffff81a2c4cf 0000000000000082 ffffffff81a2c4cf 00000000d3c0017b
 0000000000000093 ffff88003e35fcf8 ffffffff8183ec8d 0000000000000001
Call Trace:
 [<     inline     >] __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:15
 [<ffffffff82486c57>] dump_stack+0x157/0x1d0 lib/dump_stack.c:51
 [<ffffffff8183ec8d>] kmsan_report+0x20d/0x280 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:777
 [<ffffffff818402ab>] __msan_warning+0x5b/0xb0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:343
 [<ffffffff81a2c4cf>] SYSC_epoll_ctl+0x137f/0x4c60 fs/eventpoll.c:1898
 [<ffffffff81a2b129>] SyS_epoll_ctl+0x89/0xb0 fs/eventpoll.c:1849
 [<ffffffff84ec685b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x8f arch/x86/entry/entry_64.o:?
origin description: ----epds@SYSC_epoll_ctl
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SYSC_epoll_ctl() is defined as follows:

1849 SYSCALL_DEFINE4(epoll_ctl, int, epfd, int, op, int, fd,
1850                 struct epoll_event __user *, event)
1851 {
...
1857         struct epoll_event epds;
1858         struct eventpoll *tep = NULL;
1859
1860         error = -EFAULT;
1861         if (ep_op_has_event(op) &&
1862             copy_from_user(&epds, event, sizeof(struct epoll_event)))
1863                 goto error_return;
...
1898         if (epds.events & EPOLLEXCLUSIVE) {
1899                 if (op == EPOLL_CTL_MOD)
1900                         goto error_tgt_fput;
1901                 if (op == EPOLL_CTL_ADD && (is_file_epoll(tf.file) ||
1902                                 (epds.events & ~EPOLLEXCLUSIVE_OK_BITS)))
1903                         goto error_tgt_fput;
1904         }

The |op| parameter takes one of the following values: EPOLL_CTL_ADD, EPOLL_CTL_DEL, EPOLL_CTL_MOD.
In the case op == EPOLL_CTL_DEL, ep_op_has_event() returns false:

 362 static inline int ep_op_has_event(int op)
 363 {
 364         return op != EPOLL_CTL_DEL;
 365 }

, as a result, |epds| is not copied from the user memory and remains uninitialized.
Therefore, the access at line 1898 results in undefined behavior.

Normally the code in that block is not executed, because op is not equal to EPOLL_CTL_MOD or EPOLL_CTL_ADD.
However Dmitry Vyukov suggests a transformation based on the fact there's UB in the above code:
 - at line 1898 the compiler may assume that op != EPOLL_CTL_DEL, because otherwise there's UB;
 - at line 1901 it may assume op == EPOLL_CTL_ADD (because it is not equal to EPOLL_CTL_DEL or EPOLL_CTL_MOD);
 - so it's safe to drop the "op == EPOLL_CTL_ADD" check:

	1898         if (epds.events & EPOLLEXCLUSIVE) {
	1899                 if (op == EPOLL_CTL_MOD)
	1900                         goto error_tgt_fput;
	1901                 if (is_file_epoll(tf.file) ||
	1902                                 (epds.events & ~EPOLLEXCLUSIVE_OK_BITS))
	1903                         goto error_tgt_fput;
	1904         }

 - as a result, if during execution |op| is EPOLL_CTL_DEL, the syscall may still fail.