From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: Chao Shi <coshi036@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@arkamax.eu>,
Sungwoo Kim <iam@sung-woo.kim>, Dave Tian <daveti@purdue.edu>,
Weidong Zhu <weizhu@fiu.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] nvme: core: reject invalid LBA data size from Identify Namespace
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 13:33:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ag4Mism3AV_2nPDR@kbusch-mbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260515185853.2761456-1-coshi036@gmail.com>
On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 02:58:53PM -0400, Chao Shi wrote:
> nvme_update_ns_info_block() trusts id->lbaf[lbaf].ds from the
> controller and assigns it directly to ns->head->lba_shift without
> bounds checking. nvme_lba_to_sect() then does:
>
> return lba << (head->lba_shift - SECTOR_SHIFT);
>
> When called with lba = le64_to_cpu(id->nsze) to compute the device
> capacity, an attacker-controlled controller can choose ds < 9 or a
> combination of (ds, nsze) that makes the left shift overflow
> sector_t. The former is a C undefined behaviour that UBSAN reports
> as a BUG; the latter silently yields a bogus capacity that the
> block layer then trusts for bounds checking.
>
> Validate ds against SECTOR_SHIFT and use check_shl_overflow() to
> compute capacity so that any (ds, nsze) combination that would
> overflow sector_t is rejected. The namespace is skipped with
> -ENODEV instead of crashing the kernel. This is reachable by a
> malicious NVMe device, a buggy firmware, or an attacker-controlled
> NVMe-oF target.
Thanks, applied to nvme-7.2.
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2026-05-15 18:58 [PATCH v3] nvme: core: reject invalid LBA data size from Identify Namespace Chao Shi
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