From: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
To: Bernard Metzler <bernard.metzler@linux.dev>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] RDMA/siw: reject MPA FPDU length underflow before signed receive math
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 13:53:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260513175325.2042630-2-michael.bommarito@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260513175325.2042630-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
A malicious connected siw peer can send an iWARP FPDU whose MPA length
field (c_hdr->mpa_len, 16 bit big-endian, peer-controlled) is smaller
than the fixed DDP/RDMAP header for the announced opcode. Soft-iWARP
parses the full header in siw_get_hdr() based on iwarp_pktinfo[opcode]
.hdr_len, but never compares mpa_len against that header length.
siw_tcp_rx_data() then derives
srx->fpdu_part_rem = be16_to_cpu(mpa_len) - fpdu_part_rcvd
+ MPA_HDR_SIZE;
where fpdu_part_rcvd equals iwarp_pktinfo[opcode].hdr_len at this
point. For a tagged WRITE (hdr_len 16, MPA_HDR_SIZE 2) the smallest
on-wire mpa_len of 0 yields fpdu_part_rem = -14, and any mpa_len below
hdr_len - MPA_HDR_SIZE underflows to a negative int.
The signed value then flows into siw_proc_write()/siw_proc_rresp() as
bytes = min(srx->fpdu_part_rem, srx->skb_new);
is handed to siw_check_mem() as an int len (whose interval check
addr + len > mem->va + mem->len is satisfied for a valid base when
len is negative), and reaches siw_rx_data() -> siw_rx_kva() /
siw_rx_umem() -> skb_copy_bits() as a signed copy length. The header
copy branch in skb_copy_bits() promotes that to size_t, producing a
multi-gigabyte read.
KASAN under a KUnit harness that drives the real kernel TCP receive
path -- a loopback AF_INET socketpair, the malformed FPDU written via
kernel_sendmsg, sk_data_ready firing in softirq, tcp_read_sock
dispatching to siw_tcp_rx_data -- reports:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in skb_copy_bits+0x284/0x480
Read of size 4294967295 at addr ffff888...
Call Trace:
skb_copy_bits
siw_rx_kva
siw_rx_data
siw_check_mem
siw_proc_write
siw_tcp_rx_data
__tcp_read_sock
siw_qp_llp_data_ready
tcp_data_ready
tcp_data_queue
Add the missing invariant at the earliest point where the peer header
is fully assembled. iwarp_pktinfo[*].hdr_len - MPA_HDR_SIZE is exactly
the value the siw transmitter uses as the minimum mpa_len for each
opcode (drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp.c:33), so this matches the
protocol contract. Out-of-range FPDUs terminate the connection with
TERM_ERROR_LAYER_LLP / LLP_ETYPE_MPA / LLP_ECODE_FPDU_START -- which
is RFC 5044 Section 8 error code 3 ("Marker and ULPDU Length fields
do not agree on the start of an FPDU"), the correct framing-error
class for this inconsistency.
Fixes: 8b6a361b8c48 ("rdma/siw: receive path")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
---
See cover letter for full root cause, series rationale, and test
summary. [2/2] adds the KUnit regression harness used to validate
this fix.
drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_rx.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_rx.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_rx.c
index e8a88b378d51..34d03584160c 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_rx.c
@@ -1081,6 +1081,21 @@ static int siw_get_hdr(struct siw_rx_stream *srx)
return -EAGAIN;
}
+ /*
+ * Peer-controlled mpa_len must not underflow srx->fpdu_part_rem
+ * in siw_tcp_rx_data(); a negative value flows as a signed copy
+ * length into siw_check_mem() and skb_copy_bits().
+ */
+ if (unlikely(be16_to_cpu(c_hdr->mpa_len) + MPA_HDR_SIZE <
+ iwarp_pktinfo[opcode].hdr_len)) {
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("siw: short mpa_len %u for opcode %u (hdr_len %u)\n",
+ be16_to_cpu(c_hdr->mpa_len), opcode,
+ iwarp_pktinfo[opcode].hdr_len);
+ siw_init_terminate(rx_qp(srx), TERM_ERROR_LAYER_LLP,
+ LLP_ETYPE_MPA, LLP_ECODE_FPDU_START, 0);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
/*
* DDP/RDMAP header receive completed. Check if the current
* DDP segment starts a new RDMAP message or continues a previously
--
2.53.0
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2026-05-13 17:53 [PATCH 0/2] RDMA/siw: fix MPA FPDU length underflow + add KUnit coverage Michael Bommarito
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