Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: target: iscsi: reject invalid size Extended CDB AHS

[Dmitry Bogdanov]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 07:42:53PM -0700, carlos.bilbao@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> From: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If ecdb_ahdr->ahslength is zero, two bugs follow:
> 
>   kmalloc(be16_to_cpu(ecdb_ahdr->ahslength) + 15, ...)
> 
> allocates 15 bytes, but the immediately following memcpy writes
> ISCSI_CDB_SIZE (16) bytes into it, a one-byte heap overflow. Also:
> 
>   memcpy(cdb + ISCSI_CDB_SIZE, ecdb_ahdr->ecdb,
>            be16_to_cpu(ecdb_ahdr->ahslength) - 1);
> 
> (u16)0 - 1 promotes to (int)-1 which converts to SIZE_MAX as size_t,
> causing a massive out-of-bounds write.
> 
> Reject ahslength == 0 with ISCSI_REASON_PROTOCOL_ERROR before the kmalloc.
> Also reject ahslength values that exceed the actual AHS buffer advertised.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> 
> - Add bounds check: ahslength must not exceed (hdr->hlength * 4) - 3.
> - Replace opaque ahslength + 15 with explicit cdb_length variable.
> 
> Fixes: 8f1f7d297bce ("scsi: target: iscsi: Add support for extended CDB AHS")
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao (Lambda) <carlos.bilbao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Dmitry Bogdanov <d.bogdanov@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
> index e80449f6ce15..1a492965ebdf 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
> @@ -1100,6 +1100,8 @@ int iscsit_setup_scsi_cmd(struct iscsit_conn *conn, struct iscsit_cmd *cmd,
>         cdb = hdr->cdb;
> 
>         if (hdr->hlength) {
> +               u16 ahslength;
> +
>                 ecdb_ahdr = (struct iscsi_ecdb_ahdr *) (hdr + 1);
>                 if (ecdb_ahdr->ahstype != ISCSI_AHSTYPE_CDB) {
>                         pr_err("Additional Header Segment type %d not supported!\n",
> @@ -1108,14 +1110,27 @@ int iscsit_setup_scsi_cmd(struct iscsit_conn *conn, struct iscsit_cmd *cmd,
>                                 ISCSI_REASON_CMD_NOT_SUPPORTED, buf);
>                 }
> 
> -               cdb = kmalloc(be16_to_cpu(ecdb_ahdr->ahslength) + 15,
> -                             GFP_KERNEL);
> +               ahslength = be16_to_cpu(ecdb_ahdr->ahslength);
> +               if (!ahslength) {
> +                       pr_err("Extended CDB AHS with zero length, protocol error.\n");
> +                       return iscsit_add_reject_cmd(cmd,
> +                               ISCSI_REASON_PROTOCOL_ERROR, buf);
> +               }
> +               if (ahslength > (hdr->hlength * 4) - 3) {
> +                       pr_err("Extended CDB AHS length %u exceeds available buffer.\n",
> +                              ahslength);
> +                       return iscsit_add_reject_cmd(cmd,
> +                               ISCSI_REASON_PROTOCOL_ERROR, buf);
> +               }
> +
> +               u16 cdb_length = ahslength - 1 + ISCSI_CDB_SIZE;

AFAIK, a variable declarationis allowed to be in the beginning of code block only.

> +
> +               cdb = kmalloc(cdb_length, GFP_KERNEL);
>                 if (cdb == NULL)
>                         return iscsit_add_reject_cmd(cmd,
>                                 ISCSI_REASON_BOOKMARK_NO_RESOURCES, buf);
>                 memcpy(cdb, hdr->cdb, ISCSI_CDB_SIZE);
> -               memcpy(cdb + ISCSI_CDB_SIZE, ecdb_ahdr->ecdb,
> -                      be16_to_cpu(ecdb_ahdr->ahslength) - 1);
> +               memcpy(cdb + ISCSI_CDB_SIZE, ecdb_ahdr->ecdb, cdb_length - ISCSI_CDB_SIZE);
>         }
> 
>         data_direction = (hdr->flags & ISCSI_FLAG_CMD_WRITE) ? DMA_TO_DEVICE :
> --
> 2.43.0
>