[PATCH net] net: rds: fix uninitialized trans dereference in CM event handler

From: Aohan Mei

Date: Mon Aug 24 2026 - 07:20:47 EST


From: Aohan Mei <henrymei@xxxxxxxxxxx>

rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn() assigns trans only when the RDMA
device is an InfiniBand CA (RDMA_NODE_IB_CA). On any other device
type, e.g. an iWARP RNIC such as siw, trans stays uninitialized, but
the event switch dereferences it: unconditionally in the
RDMA_CM_EVENT_CONNECT_REQUEST case via trans->cm_handle_connect(),
and (with a connection context) in the ROUTE_RESOLVED and
ESTABLISHED cases.

An RDS listener on an iWARP device therefore crashes the kernel as
soon as a connect request arrives: with CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO
the wild load becomes a NULL dereference at offset 0xa0
(&trans->cm_handle_connect) in the iw_cm_wq workqueue.

GCC masks the bug in default builds by folding the uninitialized
load into &rds_ib_transport; Clang-built kernels take the real
uninitialized path and oops.

Reject events that arrive on device types without an RDS transport:
initialize trans to NULL and bail out before the event switch when
no transport matched.

Fixes: dcdede0406d3 ("RDS: Drop stale iWARP RDMA transport")
Reported-by: TencentOS Corvus AI <corvus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: CodeBuddy:Kimi-K3
Signed-off-by: Aohan Mei <henrymei@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/rds/rdma_transport.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/rdma_transport.c b/net/rds/rdma_transport.c
index b15cf316b23a..ad9244a09848 100644
--- a/net/rds/rdma_transport.c
+++ b/net/rds/rdma_transport.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static int rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn(struct rdma_cm_id *cm_id,
{
/* this can be null in the listening path */
struct rds_connection *conn = cm_id->context;
- struct rds_transport *trans;
+ struct rds_transport *trans = NULL;
int ret = 0;
int *err;
u8 len;
@@ -80,6 +80,14 @@ static int rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn(struct rdma_cm_id *cm_id,
}
}

+ /* No RDS transport exists for this device type (e.g. iWARP RNIC),
+ * so trans was never assigned; reject instead of dereferencing it.
+ */
+ if (!trans) {
+ ret = 1;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
switch (event->event) {
case RDMA_CM_EVENT_CONNECT_REQUEST:
ret = trans->cm_handle_connect(cm_id, event, isv6);
--
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