From: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: alibuda@linux.alibaba.com, dust.li@linux.alibaba.com,
wenjia@linux.ibm.com, sidraya@linux.ibm.com,
tonylu@linux.alibaba.com, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, bestswngs@gmail.com,
Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: [PATCH net] net/smc: avoid NULL deref of conn->lnk in smc_msg_event tracepoint
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 15:26:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260510222640.1230720-1-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)
The smc_msg_event tracepoint class, shared by smc_tx_sendmsg and
smc_rx_recvmsg, unconditionally dereferences smc->conn.lnk:
__string(name, smc->conn.lnk->ibname)
conn->lnk is only set for SMC-R; for SMC-D it is NULL. Other code on
these paths already handles this (e.g. !conn->lnk in
SMC_STAT_RMB_TX_SIZE_SMALL()). With the tracepoint enabled, the first
sendmsg()/recvmsg() on an SMC-D socket crashes:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [...]
RIP: 0010:strlen+0x1e/0xa0
Call Trace:
trace_event_raw_event_smc_msg_event (net/smc/smc_tracepoint.h:44)
smc_rx_recvmsg (net/smc/smc_rx.c:515)
smc_recvmsg (net/smc/af_smc.c:2859)
__sys_recvfrom (net/socket.c:2315)
__x64_sys_recvfrom (net/socket.c:2326)
do_syscall_64
The faulting address 0x3e0 is offsetof(struct smc_link, ibname),
confirming the NULL ->lnk deref. Enabling the tracepoint requires
root, but the trigger itself is unprivileged: socket(AF_SMC, ...) has
no capability check, and SMC-D negotiation needs no admin step on
s390 or on x86 with the loopback ISM device loaded.
Log an empty device name for SMC-D instead of dereferencing NULL.
Fixes: aff3083f10bf ("net/smc: Introduce tracepoints for tx and rx msg")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
net/smc/smc_tracepoint.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_tracepoint.h b/net/smc/smc_tracepoint.h
index a9a6e3c1113a..53da84f57fd6 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_tracepoint.h
+++ b/net/smc/smc_tracepoint.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(smc_msg_event,
__field(const void *, smc)
__field(u64, net_cookie)
__field(size_t, len)
- __string(name, smc->conn.lnk->ibname)
+ __string(name, smc->conn.lnk ? smc->conn.lnk->ibname : "")
),
TP_fast_assign(
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-10 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-10 22:26 Xiang Mei [this message]
2026-05-10 22:50 ` [PATCH net] net/smc: avoid NULL deref of conn->lnk in smc_msg_event tracepoint Xiang Mei
2026-05-11 2:11 ` Dust Li
2026-05-11 5:06 ` Sidraya Jayagond
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