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From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
To: "D . Wythe" <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Sidraya Jayagond <sidraya@linux.ibm.com>,
	Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>,
	Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Wen Gu <guwen@linux.alibaba.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>,
	Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net/smc: fix NULL pointer dereference in smc_clc_wait_msg()
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:02:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260423100205.1093987-3-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)

In smc_listen_work(), smc_clc_wait_msg() is called to wait for a CLC
PROPOSAL message before any link group has been created, so
smc->conn.lgr is still NULL at this point. smc_clc_wait_msg() also
accepts CLC DECLINE messages regardless of the expected type. When a
DECLINE with SMC_FIRST_CONTACT_MASK set in hdr.typev2 arrives, the code
unconditionally dereferences smc->conn.lgr to set sync_err, causing a
NULL pointer dereference.

KASAN reported a null-ptr-deref in smc_clc_wait_msg():

 Oops: general protection fault, 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000310-0x0000000000000317]
 RIP: 0010:smc_clc_wait_msg (net/smc/smc_clc.c:793)
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  smc_listen_work (net/smc/af_smc.c:2491)
  process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3281)
  worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3440)
  kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)
  ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:164)
  ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:257)
  </TASK>
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

Add a NULL check for smc->conn.lgr before dereferencing it. 

Fixes: 0cfdd8f92cac ("smc: connection and link group creation")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
 net/smc/smc_clc.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/smc/smc_clc.c b/net/smc/smc_clc.c
index c38fc7bf0a7e..d22c9417d239 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_clc.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_clc.c
@@ -790,8 +790,10 @@ int smc_clc_wait_msg(struct smc_sock *smc, void *buf, int buflen,
 		smc->peer_diagnosis = ntohl(dclc->peer_diagnosis);
 		if (((struct smc_clc_msg_decline *)buf)->hdr.typev2 &
 						SMC_FIRST_CONTACT_MASK) {
-			smc->conn.lgr->sync_err = 1;
-			smc_lgr_terminate_sched(smc->conn.lgr);
+			if (smc->conn.lgr) {
+				smc->conn.lgr->sync_err = 1;
+				smc_lgr_terminate_sched(smc->conn.lgr);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-23 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-23 10:02 Weiming Shi [this message]
2026-04-23 11:18 ` [PATCH net] net/smc: fix NULL pointer dereference in smc_clc_wait_msg() Dust Li

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