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From: Shivam Kumar <kumar.shivam43666@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: security@kernel.org, hch@lst.de, sagi@grimberg.me,
	kch@nvidia.com, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
	kumar.shivam43666@gmail.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] nvmet-tcp: fix out-of-bounds write when receiving an over-long PDU
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:48:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260814194811.1581041-1-kumar.shivam43666@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026081459-handoff-wildly-eeb5@gregkh>

nvmet_tcp_try_recv_pdu() reads a PDU header into the fixed 128-byte
queue->pdu union, then computes the remaining payload length as

	queue->left = hdr->hlen - queue->offset + hdgst;

and reads that many more bytes into &queue->pdu + queue->offset, without
ever bounding the result against sizeof(queue->pdu).

A struct nvme_tcp_icreq_pdu is itself 128 bytes, exactly the size of the
union. Once a header digest has been negotiated (hdgst = 4), a second
ICReq passes the hlen == nvmet_tcp_pdu_size() check but yields
queue->left = 128 - 8 + 4 = 124, so bytes 8..132 are written into the
128-byte buffer -- 4 bytes past its end, over queue->hdr_digest and
queue->data_digest. Those bytes are attacker-controlled (an ICReq
carries no digest), and the duplicate ICReq is only rejected later,
after the overflow. A remote unauthenticated host can thus corrupt
kernel memory adjacent to the receive buffer.

Reject any PDU whose declared length would read past the end of
queue->pdu before the second recv.

Fixes: 872d26a391da ("nvmet-tcp: add NVMe over TCP target driver")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Shivam Kumar <kumar.shivam43666@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c
index 75a276d73be3..c9c98b8eb149 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c
@@ -1229,6 +1229,8 @@ static int nvmet_tcp_try_recv_pdu(struct nvmet_tcp_queue *queue)
 		}
 
 		queue->left = hdr->hlen - queue->offset + hdgst;
+		if (queue->left > sizeof(queue->pdu) - queue->offset)
+			return -EPROTO;
 		goto recv;
 	}
 
-- 
2.53.0



       reply	other threads:[~2026-08-14 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2026081459-handoff-wildly-eeb5@gregkh>
2026-08-14 19:48 ` Shivam Kumar [this message]
2026-08-19 16:58   ` [PATCH] nvmet-tcp: fix out-of-bounds write when receiving an over-long PDU Shivam Kumar
2026-08-22 22:48   ` Sagi Grimberg
2026-08-25  0:59   ` Keith Busch

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