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From: Dave Marquardt <davemarq@linux.ibm.com>
To: Tyllis Xu <livelycarpet87@gmail.com>
Cc: tyreld@linux.ibm.com, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com, brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, danisjiang@gmail.com,
	ychen@northwestern.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: ibmvfc: fix OOB access in ibmvfc_discover_targets_done()
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:04:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ms07euqg.fsf@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260314170151.548614-1-LivelyCarpet87@gmail.com> (Tyllis Xu's message of "Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:01:50 -0500")

Tyllis Xu <livelycarpet87@gmail.com> writes:

> A malicious or compromised VIO server can return a num_written value in
> the discover targets MAD response that exceeds max_targets. This value
> is stored directly in vhost->num_targets without validation, and is then
> used as the loop bound in ibmvfc_alloc_targets() to index into disc_buf[],
> which is only allocated for max_targets entries. Indices at or beyond
> max_targets access kernel memory outside the DMA-coherent allocation.
> The out-of-bounds data is subsequently embedded in Implicit Logout and
> PLOGI MADs that are sent back to the VIO server, leaking kernel memory.
>
> Fix by clamping num_written to max_targets before storing it.
>
> Fixes: 072b91f9c651 ("[SCSI] ibmvfc: IBM Power Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter Client Driver")
> Reported-by: Yuhao Jiang <danisjiang@gmail.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Tyllis Xu <LivelyCarpet87@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c
> index a20fce04fe79..3dd2adda195e 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c
> @@ -4966,7 +4966,8 @@ static void ibmvfc_discover_targets_done(struct ibmvfc_event *evt)
>  	switch (mad_status) {
>  	case IBMVFC_MAD_SUCCESS:
>  		ibmvfc_dbg(vhost, "Discover Targets succeeded\n");
> -		vhost->num_targets = be32_to_cpu(rsp->num_written);
> +		vhost->num_targets = min_t(u32, be32_to_cpu(rsp->num_written),
> +					   max_targets);
>  		ibmvfc_set_host_action(vhost, IBMVFC_HOST_ACTION_ALLOC_TGTS);
>  		break;
>  	case IBMVFC_MAD_FAILED:

Reviewed-by: Dave Marquardt <davemarq@linux.ibm.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-16 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-14 17:01 [PATCH] scsi: ibmvfc: fix OOB access in ibmvfc_discover_targets_done() Tyllis Xu
2026-03-16 14:04 ` Dave Marquardt [this message]
2026-03-18 23:07 ` Tyrel Datwyler
2026-03-20  2:36 ` Martin K. Petersen

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