From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@proton.me>,
Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y 3/3] nvmet: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds heap read in Discovery Get Log Page
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:18:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260720201850.3239465-3-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260720201850.3239465-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@proton.me>
[ Upstream commit 53cd102a7a56079b11b897835bd9b94c14e6322c ]
nvmet_execute_disc_get_log_page() validates only the dword alignment
of the host-supplied Log Page Offset (lpo). The 64-bit offset is then
added to a small kzalloc'd buffer that holds the discovery log page
and the result is passed straight to nvmet_copy_to_sgl(), which
memcpy()s data_len bytes out to the host with no source-side bound
check:
u64 offset = nvmet_get_log_page_offset(req->cmd); /* 64-bit host */
size_t data_len = nvmet_get_log_page_len(req->cmd); /* 32-bit host */
...
if (offset & 0x3) { ... } /* only check */
...
alloc_len = sizeof(*hdr) + entry_size * discovery_log_entries(req);
buffer = kzalloc(alloc_len, GFP_KERNEL);
...
status = nvmet_copy_to_sgl(req, 0, buffer + offset, data_len);
The Discovery controller is unauthenticated -- nvmet_host_allowed()
returns true unconditionally for the discovery subsystem -- so the call
is reachable pre-authentication by any TCP/RDMA/FC peer that can reach
the nvmet target. With a discovery log page of ~1 KiB, an attacker
requesting up to 4 KiB starting at offset == alloc_len reads the next
slab page out and gets its content returned over the fabric (an
empirical run on a default nvmet-tcp loopback target leaked 81
canonical kernel pointers in one Get Log Page response). Pointing the
offset at unmapped kernel memory faults the in-kernel memcpy and
crashes (or panics, on panic_on_oops=1) the target host instead.
The attacker-controlled source-side offset pattern
"nvmet_copy_to_sgl(req, 0, buffer + ATTACKER_OFFSET, ...)" is unique
to nvmet_execute_disc_get_log_page in the entire nvmet codebase: every
other Get Log Page handler in admin-cmd.c either ignores lpo (and
silently starts every response at offset 0) or tracks a local
destination offset with a fixed source pointer.
Validate the host-supplied offset against the log page size, cap the
copy length to what is actually available, and zero-fill any remainder
of the host transfer buffer. The zero-fill matches the existing
short-response pattern in nvmet_execute_get_log_changed_ns()
(admin-cmd.c) and prevents leaking transport SGL contents when the
host asks for more bytes than the log page contains.
Fixes: a07b4970f464 ("nvmet: add a generic NVMe target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@proton.me>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/nvme/target/discovery.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/discovery.c b/drivers/nvme/target/discovery.c
index cb8d4f48d8b36b..d2083fde7f573b 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/discovery.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/discovery.c
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ static void nvmet_execute_disc_get_log_page(struct nvmet_req *req)
u64 offset = nvmet_get_log_page_offset(req->cmd);
size_t data_len = nvmet_get_log_page_len(req->cmd);
size_t alloc_len;
+ size_t copy_len;
struct nvmet_subsys_link *p;
struct nvmet_port *r;
u32 numrec = 0;
@@ -234,7 +235,27 @@ static void nvmet_execute_disc_get_log_page(struct nvmet_req *req)
up_read(&nvmet_config_sem);
- status = nvmet_copy_to_sgl(req, 0, buffer + offset, data_len);
+ /*
+ * Validate the host-supplied log page offset before copying out.
+ * Without this check, the host controls a 64-bit byte offset into
+ * a small kzalloc'd buffer: a value past the log page lets the
+ * subsequent memcpy read adjacent kernel heap, and a value aimed
+ * at unmapped kernel memory faults the in-kernel copy and crashes
+ * the target host. The Discovery controller is unauthenticated,
+ * so the bug is reachable from any reachable fabric peer.
+ */
+ if (offset > alloc_len) {
+ req->error_loc =
+ offsetof(struct nvme_get_log_page_command, lpo);
+ status = NVME_SC_INVALID_FIELD | NVME_STATUS_DNR;
+ goto out_free_buffer;
+ }
+
+ copy_len = min_t(size_t, data_len, alloc_len - offset);
+ status = nvmet_copy_to_sgl(req, 0, buffer + offset, copy_len);
+ if (!status && copy_len < data_len)
+ status = nvmet_zero_sgl(req, copy_len, data_len - copy_len);
+out_free_buffer:
kfree(buffer);
out:
nvmet_req_complete(req, status);
--
2.53.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-20 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-15 10:20 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] nvmet: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds heap read in Discovery Get" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree gregkh
2026-07-20 20:18 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 1/3] nvme: fix status magic numbers Sasha Levin
2026-07-20 20:18 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 2/3] nvme: rename CDR/MORE/DNR to NVME_STATUS_* Sasha Levin
2026-07-20 20:18 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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