[PATCH v2 5/9] nfsd: widen nfsd_genl_rqstp address fields to sockaddr_storage

From: Jeff Layton

Date: Tue Jun 02 2026 - 12:35:43 EST


struct nfsd_genl_rqstp declares rq_daddr and rq_saddr as plain
"struct sockaddr" (16 bytes). When an IPv6 NFS client is connected,
nfsd_genl_rpc_status_compose_msg() casts these fields to
"struct sockaddr_in6 *" (28 bytes) and reads sin6_addr at offset 8..24,
which extends 8 bytes past the end of the 16-byte sockaddr field into
the adjacent rq_flags member. The 16-byte nla_put_in6_addr then ships 8
bytes of truncated IPv6 address followed by 8 bytes of rq_flags to
userspace via the NFSD_A_RPC_STATUS_SADDR6/DADDR6 netlink attributes.

This is reachable by any unprivileged process in the network namespace
because NFSD_CMD_RPC_STATUS_GET uses GENL_CMD_CAP_DUMP without
GENL_ADMIN_PERM.

Fix by widening rq_daddr and rq_saddr to struct sockaddr_storage so the
IPv6 casts operate within bounds, copying sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)
bytes in the memcpy calls so the full address is captured, and
zero-initializing the genl_rqstp stack variable to prevent leaking
uninitialized tail bytes through netlink.

Fixes: bd9d6a3efa97 ("NFSD: add rpc_status netlink support")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
index 92f65ca6f667..6fee49a7787f 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
@@ -1414,8 +1414,8 @@ static int create_proc_exports_entry(void)
unsigned int nfsd_net_id;

struct nfsd_genl_rqstp {
- struct sockaddr rq_daddr;
- struct sockaddr rq_saddr;
+ struct sockaddr_storage rq_daddr;
+ struct sockaddr_storage rq_saddr;
unsigned long rq_flags;
ktime_t rq_stime;
__be32 rq_xid;
@@ -1450,7 +1450,7 @@ static int nfsd_genl_rpc_status_compose_msg(struct sk_buff *skb,
NFSD_A_RPC_STATUS_PAD))
return -ENOBUFS;

- switch (genl_rqstp->rq_saddr.sa_family) {
+ switch (genl_rqstp->rq_saddr.ss_family) {
case AF_INET: {
const struct sockaddr_in *s_in, *d_in;

@@ -1527,7 +1527,7 @@ int nfsd_nl_rpc_status_get_dumpit(struct sk_buff *skb,
list_for_each_entry_rcu(rqstp,
&nn->nfsd_serv->sv_pools[i].sp_all_threads,
rq_all) {
- struct nfsd_genl_rqstp genl_rqstp;
+ struct nfsd_genl_rqstp genl_rqstp = {};
unsigned int status_counter;

if (rqstp_index++ < cb->args[1]) /* already consumed */
@@ -1551,9 +1551,9 @@ int nfsd_nl_rpc_status_get_dumpit(struct sk_buff *skb,
genl_rqstp.rq_stime = rqstp->rq_stime;
genl_rqstp.rq_opcnt = 0;
memcpy(&genl_rqstp.rq_daddr, svc_daddr(rqstp),
- sizeof(struct sockaddr));
+ sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage));
memcpy(&genl_rqstp.rq_saddr, svc_addr(rqstp),
- sizeof(struct sockaddr));
+ sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage));

#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_V4
if (rqstp->rq_vers == NFS4_VERSION &&

--
2.54.0