[PATCH 16/19] nfsd: validate sockaddr length per family in listener_set

From: Jeff Layton

Date: Tue Jun 09 2026 - 13:59:25 EST


nfsd_sock_nl_policy declares NFSD_A_SOCK_ADDR as bare NLA_BINARY
with no minimum length. A CAP_NET_ADMIN caller can send a 16-byte
NFSD_A_SOCK_ADDR with sa_family=AF_INET6, causing a 12-byte OOB
read across three consumers (rpc_cmp_addr_port, svc_find_listener,
kernel_bind).

Tighten the policy to NLA_POLICY_MIN_LEN(16) and add per-family
length validation in both nlmsg_for_each_attr_type loops.

Fixes: 16a471177496 ("NFSD: add listener-{set,get} netlink command")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/netlink/specs/nfsd.yaml | 4 ++++
fs/nfsd/netlink.c | 2 +-
fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/nfsd.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/nfsd.yaml
index 8f36fadd68f7..9677ba19ffcd 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/nfsd.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/nfsd.yaml
@@ -156,6 +156,10 @@ attribute-sets:
-
name: addr
type: binary
+ # 16 == sizeof(struct sockaddr_in); AF_INET6 callers
+ # validate the full sockaddr_in6 length in nfsctl.c.
+ checks:
+ min-len: 16
-
name: transport-name
type: string
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/netlink.c b/fs/nfsd/netlink.c
index fbee3676d253..6570960034f1 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/netlink.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/netlink.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ const struct nla_policy nfsd_fslocations_nl_policy[NFSD_A_FSLOCATIONS_LOCATION +
};

const struct nla_policy nfsd_sock_nl_policy[NFSD_A_SOCK_TRANSPORT_NAME + 1] = {
- [NFSD_A_SOCK_ADDR] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, },
+ [NFSD_A_SOCK_ADDR] = NLA_POLICY_MIN_LEN(16),
[NFSD_A_SOCK_TRANSPORT_NAME] = { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING, },
};

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
index ab10692ee937..f3b3154b16c5 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
@@ -2016,6 +2016,21 @@ int nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
xcl_name = nla_data(tb[NFSD_A_SOCK_TRANSPORT_NAME]);
sa = nla_data(tb[NFSD_A_SOCK_ADDR]);

+ switch (sa->sa_family) {
+ case AF_INET:
+ if (nla_len(tb[NFSD_A_SOCK_ADDR]) <
+ sizeof(struct sockaddr_in))
+ continue;
+ break;
+ case AF_INET6:
+ if (nla_len(tb[NFSD_A_SOCK_ADDR]) <
+ sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6))
+ continue;
+ break;
+ default:
+ continue;
+ }
+
/* Put back any matching sockets */
list_for_each_entry_safe(xprt, tmp, &permsocks, xpt_list) {
/* This shouldn't be possible */
@@ -2077,6 +2092,21 @@ int nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
xcl_name = nla_data(tb[NFSD_A_SOCK_TRANSPORT_NAME]);
sa = nla_data(tb[NFSD_A_SOCK_ADDR]);

+ switch (sa->sa_family) {
+ case AF_INET:
+ if (nla_len(tb[NFSD_A_SOCK_ADDR]) <
+ sizeof(struct sockaddr_in))
+ continue;
+ break;
+ case AF_INET6:
+ if (nla_len(tb[NFSD_A_SOCK_ADDR]) <
+ sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6))
+ continue;
+ break;
+ default:
+ continue;
+ }
+
xprt = svc_find_listener(serv, xcl_name, net, sa);
if (xprt) {
if (delete)

--
2.54.0