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
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