From: Aswin Karuvally <aswin@linux.ibm.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
jeff@garzik.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] s390/ctcm: Prevent XID null dereference
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2026 12:55:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260809105536.541453-1-aswin@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
The mpc_validate_xid() function sets grp->saved_xid2->xid2_flag2 to 0x40
to signal XID validation error. If peer XID is NULL or r/w channel
pairing mismatch happens, grp->saved_xid2 is never initialized. An
attempt to set the flag in such case leads to NULL dereference.
Fix this by guarding grp->saved_xid2->xid2_flag2 with a NULL check.
Also update mpc_action_go_ready() to treat uninitialized grp->saved_xid2
as validation error.
Fixes: 293d984f0e36 ("ctcm: infrastructure for replaced ctc driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aswin Karuvally <aswin@linux.ibm.com>
---
drivers/s390/net/ctcm_mpc.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_mpc.c b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_mpc.c
index aeb102537e7f..a5b55fe6b110 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_mpc.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_mpc.c
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ static void mpc_action_go_ready(fsm_instance *fsm, int event, void *arg)
fsm_deltimer(&grp->timer);
- if (grp->saved_xid2->xid2_flag2 == 0x40) {
+ if (!grp->saved_xid2 || grp->saved_xid2->xid2_flag2 == 0x40) {
priv->xid->xid2_flag2 = 0x00;
if (grp->estconnfunc) {
grp->estconnfunc(grp->port_num, 1,
@@ -1636,7 +1636,13 @@ static int mpc_validate_xid(struct mpcg_info *mpcginfo)
"The XID used in the MPC protocol is not valid, "
"rc = %d\n", rc);
priv->xid->xid2_flag2 = 0x40;
- grp->saved_xid2->xid2_flag2 = 0x40;
+
+ /* If xid is NULL (rc=1) or r/w channel pairing mismatch
+ * (rc=2) happens, grp->saved_xid2 is never initialized
+ * and becomes NULL
+ */
+ if (grp->saved_xid2)
+ grp->saved_xid2->xid2_flag2 = 0x40;
}
return rc;
--
2.53.0
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