[PATCH v3 3/3] net/smc: bound the send length to the send buffer in smc_tx_sendmsg()

From: Bryam Vargas via B4 Relay

Date: Sun Jun 14 2026 - 04:24:01 EST


From: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@xxxxxxxxx>

On the SMC-D DMB-merge (nocopy) path, smc_cdc_msg_recv_action() advances
conn->sndbuf_space from the peer's consumer cursor:

diff_tx = smc_curs_diff(sndbuf_desc->len, &tx_curs_fin,
&local_rx_ctrl.cons);
atomic_add(diff_tx, &conn->sndbuf_space);

The consumer cursor is wire-controlled and unvalidated, and
smc_curs_diff()'s differing-wrap branch can return more than
sndbuf_desc->len, so a forged cursor drives sndbuf_space past the send
buffer (and across many CDC messages can overflow the signed counter
negative). smc_tx_sendmsg() reads it as the available write space and
performs a wrap-around copy whose second chunk (copylen - first_chunk,
written at ring offset 0) is never re-bounded to sndbuf_desc->len,
writing user data past the send buffer -- a heap out-of-bounds write of
attacker-influenced length and content.

Bound the write space to sndbuf_desc->len where it is consumed, treating
a negative (sign-overflowed) value as out of range too, so the copy
length can never exceed the ring. This enforces the documented
0 <= sndbuf_space <= sndbuf_desc->len invariant at the producer,
race-free against the CDC tasklet that advances sndbuf_space.

Fixes: cc0ab806fc52 ("net/smc: adapt cursor update when sndbuf and peer DMB are merged")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/smc/smc_tx.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/smc/smc_tx.c b/net/smc/smc_tx.c
index 3144b4b1fe29..5916f02060fb 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_tx.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_tx.c
@@ -233,6 +233,19 @@ int smc_tx_sendmsg(struct smc_sock *smc, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len)
/* initialize variables for 1st iteration of subsequent loop */
/* could be just 1 byte, even after smc_tx_wait above */
writespace = atomic_read(&conn->sndbuf_space);
+ /* sndbuf_space is advanced from the peer's wire-controlled
+ * consumer cursor on the SMC-D DMB-merge path; a forged cursor
+ * can inflate it past the send buffer, or overflow the signed
+ * accumulator to a negative value across many CDC messages
+ * (which a plain "> len" check would miss before the size_t
+ * cast below turns it huge). Bound it to the send buffer in
+ * either case so the wrap-around write cannot run past
+ * sndbuf_desc->len. This enforces the documented
+ * 0 <= sndbuf_space <= sndbuf_desc->len invariant at the
+ * producer, race-free against the CDC tasklet.
+ */
+ if (writespace < 0 || writespace > conn->sndbuf_desc->len)
+ writespace = conn->sndbuf_desc->len;
/* not more than what user space asked for */
copylen = min_t(size_t, send_remaining, writespace);
/* determine start of sndbuf */

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2.43.0