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From: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: alibuda@linux.alibaba.com, dust.li@linux.alibaba.com,
	sidraya@linux.ibm.com, wenjia@linux.ibm.com,
	ubraun@linux.ibm.com, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, bestswngs@gmail.com,
	Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: [PATCH net] net/smc: reject CHID-0 ACCEPT that matches an empty ism_dev slot
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 23:21:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260511062138.2839584-1-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)

On the SMC-D client, slot 0 of ini->ism_dev[]/ini->ism_chid[] is
reserved for an SMC-Dv1 device. smc_find_ism_v2_device_clnt()
populates V2 entries starting at index 1, so when no V1 device is
selected slot 0 is left in its kzalloc()'ed state with ism_dev[0] ==
NULL and ism_chid[0] == 0.

smc_v2_determine_accepted_chid() then matches the peer's CHID against
the array starting from index 0 using the CHID alone. A malicious
peer replying to a SMC-Dv2-only proposal with d1.chid == 0 matches
the empty slot, ini->ism_selected becomes 0, and the subsequent
ism_dev[0]->lgr_lock dereference in smc_conn_create() faults at
offsetof(struct smcd_dev, lgr_lock) == 0x68:

  BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x79/0xe0
  Write of size 4 at addr 0000000000000068 by task exploit/144
  Call Trace:
   _raw_spin_lock_bh
   smc_conn_create (net/smc/smc_core.c:1997)
   __smc_connect (net/smc/af_smc.c:1447)
   smc_connect (net/smc/af_smc.c:1720)
   __sys_connect
   __x64_sys_connect
   do_syscall_64

Require ism_dev[i] to be non-NULL before accepting a CHID match.

Fixes: a7c9c5f4af7f ("net/smc: CLC accept / confirm V2")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
 net/smc/af_smc.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/smc/af_smc.c b/net/smc/af_smc.c
index 185dbed7de5d..12ea3b6dbc64 100644
--- a/net/smc/af_smc.c
+++ b/net/smc/af_smc.c
@@ -1400,7 +1400,8 @@ smc_v2_determine_accepted_chid(struct smc_clc_msg_accept_confirm *aclc,
 	int i;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ini->ism_offered_cnt + 1; i++) {
-		if (ini->ism_chid[i] == ntohs(aclc->d1.chid)) {
+		if (ini->ism_dev[i] &&
+		    ini->ism_chid[i] == ntohs(aclc->d1.chid)) {
 			ini->ism_selected = i;
 			return 0;
 		}
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-05-11  6:21 UTC|newest]

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2026-05-11  6:21 Xiang Mei [this message]
2026-05-11  6:28 ` [PATCH net] net/smc: reject CHID-0 ACCEPT that matches an empty ism_dev slot Xiang Mei

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