* [PATCH] nvme-tcp: check the data direction of a C2HData PDU
@ 2026-08-18 11:04 Yehyeong Lee
2026-08-19 8:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
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From: Yehyeong Lee @ 2026-08-18 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-nvme; +Cc: kbusch, axboe, hch, sagi, linux-kernel, Yehyeong Lee, stable
nvme_tcp_handle_c2h_data() finds the request by command id and checks
that it has a payload, but it does not check that the command asked for
data to be read. A controller that answers a write command with C2HData
therefore reaches nvme_tcp_recv_data(), where _copy_to_iter() hits
WARN_ON_ONCE(i->data_source) and returns 0. The receive path turns that
into -EFAULT and resets the controller.
No data is copied, so this is not memory corruption. What a controller
gets is a kernel warning it can raise at will, which is fatal on a host
booted with panic_on_warn.
The send path already knows the direction - it consults rq_data_dir()
when it builds a command - and nvme_tcp_handle_r2t() checks the length
and the offset of the request it names. The C2HData path does not check
the direction at all.
Reject a C2HData PDU whose command is not a read. Rejecting it fails
the command and resets the controller, as the neighbouring check in this
function does; what goes away is the warning.
[ 6.885580] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 6.886457] WARNING: lib/iov_iter.c:193 at _copy_to_iter+0x289/0x1330, CPU#0: kworker/0:1H/71
[ 6.888137] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 71 Comm: kworker/0:1H Not tainted 7.2.0-rc5-NVMETCP-gf5098b6bae76 #1 PREEMPT(lazy)
[ 6.891165] Workqueue: nvme_tcp_wq nvme_tcp_io_work
[ 6.891875] RIP: 0010:_copy_to_iter+0x289/0x1330
[ 6.903739] Call Trace:
[ 6.904085] <TASK>
[ 6.909254] __skb_datagram_iter+0x433/0x820
[ 6.911026] skb_copy_datagram_iter+0x37/0x120
[ 6.911622] nvme_tcp_recv_skb+0xa07/0x4320
[ 6.913378] __tcp_read_sock+0x1ab/0x810
[ 6.915788] nvme_tcp_try_recv+0x152/0x1e0
[ 6.918222] nvme_tcp_io_work+0x1e4/0x6c0
[ 6.926906] </TASK>
[ 6.927226] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 6.927878] nvme nvme0: queue 1 failed to copy request 0x71 data
[ 6.928709] nvme nvme0: receive failed: -14
Fixes: 3f2304f8c6d6 ("nvme-tcp: add NVMe over TCP host driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yehyeong Lee <yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr>
---
Applies on top of "nvme-tcp: do not accept C2HData based on
blk_rq_payload_bytes() alone".
Measured over a user-space target that answers every write with C2HData.
The warning appeared in 5 of 5 runs without this patch and in none of 5
with it, in each of three shapes: a buffered 8 KiB write, a 4 KiB write
carried in the command capsule, and a discard. In every run the command
ids the target answered matched the ones the kernel named. A conforming
target is unaffected over 5 runs each way, including writes and a
passthrough read, which rq_data_dir() classifies as a read.
Those runs were on 7.2-rc5 with this patch as the only change. Repeating
the write, the in-capsule write and the conforming-target arms three
times each on the base this patch applies to - 7.2-rc5 plus that patch
and its predecessor - gave the same counts.
drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
index 85a87ed6df936..a62d6e48f7190 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
@@ -679,6 +679,13 @@ static int nvme_tcp_handle_c2h_data(struct nvme_tcp_queue *queue,
return -ENOENT;
}
+ if (rq_data_dir(rq) != READ) {
+ dev_err(queue->ctrl->ctrl.device,
+ "queue %d tag %#x unexpected data for a write\n",
+ nvme_tcp_queue_id(queue), rq->tag);
+ return -EIO;
+ }
+
req = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(rq);
if (!blk_rq_payload_bytes(rq) || !req->curr_bio || !req->data_len) {
dev_err(queue->ctrl->ctrl.device,
--
2.43.0
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