From: Dairui Zhang <zhangdairui@gmail.com>
To: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: security@kernel.org, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
Dairui Zhang <zhangdairui@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] IB/mad: fix UAF and double-free in RMPP receive reassembly
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:23:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922152342.1474845-1-zhangdairui@gmail.com> (raw)
mad_rmpp_recv.state is protected by two locks that do not exclude
each other: recv_timeout_handler() (port workqueue) uses agent->lock,
continue_rmpp() (CQ softirq) uses rmpp_recv->lock. Nothing serializes
the check-then-set sequence on the state word:
T1 (CQ softirq) T2 (port workqueue)
continue_rmpp()
lock(rmpp_recv->lock)
state == ACTIVE [passes]
recv_timeout_handler()
lock(agent->lock)
state = TIMEOUT
list_del(&rmpp_recv->list)
unlock(agent->lock)
destroy_rmpp_recv()
wait_for_completion()
[blocks on T1's ref]
state = COMPLETE
unlock(rmpp_recv->lock)
complete_rmpp()
queue cleanup_work (+10s)
deref()
[unblocks]
kfree(rmpp_recv)
ib_free_recv_mad(done_wc)
+10s: recv_cleanup_handler() runs lock/list_del/destroy on the
freed rmpp_recv -> UAF write and double free; nothing can
cancel that cleanup_work anymore, the entry is already off
agent->rmpp_list. done_wc is also returned to
ib_mad_complete_recv() and freed again -> UAF read and
double free.
Reaching this requires sending MADs to a kernel RMPP agent from the
InfiniBand/RoCE fabric: the per-port sa_query agent accepts subnet
manager responses whose SLID/GID/TID are not authenticated on the
fabric, and legacy user_mad agents registered without
IB_USER_MAD_USER_RMPP start reassembly on any incoming RMPP DATA
MAD with an attacker-chosen TID, no in-flight send required. The
attacker controls segment timing and can run many transactions in
parallel (agent->rmpp_list has no cap), so landing the
microseconds-wide receive critical section on the 40-second timeout
boundary is a matter of patience, not luck.
Unify state transitions under rmpp_recv->lock in
recv_timeout_handler(), keeping list manipulation under agent->lock
(which preserves the agent->lock -> rmpp_recv->lock ordering used
by continue_rmpp()). State check/set in both paths is then
serialized, so the loser of the race always observes the final
state and bails out. recv_cleanup_handler() needs no change: with
transitions serialized, a cleanup_work can only be pending after
COMPLETE, in which case the timeout handler exits early.
The race is as old as the RMPP implementation itself.
Fixes: fa619a77046b ("[PATCH] IB: Add RMPP implementation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Dairui Zhang <zhangdairui@gmail.com>
---
Earlier version was shared privately with security@kernel.org;
posted publicly at Leon's request with a reworked commit message
(race description as a function ladder, reachability wording).
drivers/infiniband/core/mad_rmpp.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/mad_rmpp.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/mad_rmpp.c
index 17c4c52..f05e9ce 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/mad_rmpp.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/mad_rmpp.c
@@ -245,12 +245,15 @@ static void recv_timeout_handler(struct work_struct *work)
struct ib_mad_recv_wc *rmpp_wc;
unsigned long flags;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&rmpp_recv->agent->lock, flags);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&rmpp_recv->lock, flags);
if (rmpp_recv->state != RMPP_STATE_ACTIVE) {
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rmpp_recv->agent->lock, flags);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rmpp_recv->lock, flags);
return;
}
rmpp_recv->state = RMPP_STATE_TIMEOUT;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rmpp_recv->lock, flags);
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&rmpp_recv->agent->lock, flags);
list_del(&rmpp_recv->list);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rmpp_recv->agent->lock, flags);
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-22 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 15:23 Dairui Zhang [this message]
2026-09-22 15:33 ` [PATCH] IB/mad: fix UAF and double-free in RMPP receive reassembly sashiko-bot
2026-09-29 13:29 ` Leon Romanovsky
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