[PATCH 6.12 35/35] rxrpc: Fix missing validation of ticket length in non-XDR key preparsing

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-24T13:44:34Z

From: Anderson Nascimento <anderson@allelesecurity.com>

commit ac33733b10b484d666f97688561670afd5861383 upstream.

In rxrpc_preparse(), there are two paths for parsing key payloads: the
XDR path (for large payloads) and the non-XDR path (for payloads <= 28
bytes). While the XDR path (rxrpc_preparse_xdr_rxkad()) correctly
validates the ticket length against AFSTOKEN_RK_TIX_MAX, the non-XDR
path fails to do so.

This allows an unprivileged user to provide a very large ticket length.
When this key is later read via rxrpc_read(), the total
token size (toksize) calculation results in a value that exceeds
AFSTOKEN_LENGTH_MAX, triggering a WARN_ON().

[ 2001.302904] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 2108 at net/rxrpc/key.c:778 rxrpc_read+0x109/0x5c0 [rxrpc]

Fix this by adding a check in the non-XDR parsing path of rxrpc_preparse()
to ensure the ticket length does not exceed AFSTOKEN_RK_TIX_MAX,
bringing it into parity with the XDR parsing logic.

Fixes: 8a7a3eb4ddbe ("KEYS: RxRPC: Use key preparsing")
Fixes: 84924aac08a4 ("rxrpc: Fix checker warning")
Reported-by: Anderson Nascimento <anderson@allelesecurity.com>
Signed-off-by: Anderson Nascimento <anderson@allelesecurity.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422161438.2593376-7-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/rxrpc/key.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/net/rxrpc/key.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/key.c
@@ -340,6 +340,10 @@ static int rxrpc_preparse(struct key_pre
if (v1->security_index != RXRPC_SECURITY_RXKAD)
goto error;

+ ret = -EKEYREJECTED;
+ if (v1->ticket_length > AFSTOKEN_RK_TIX_MAX)
+ goto error;
+
plen = sizeof(*token->kad) + v1->ticket_length;
prep->quotalen += plen + sizeof(*token);