[PATCH net] rds: ib: Clear the sg list when mapping an MR fails

From: Dongliang Qin

Date: Sun Sep 20 2026 - 02:35:14 EST


rds_ib_map_frmr() stores the caller's scatterlist in the MR before DMA
mapping and registration can fail. On failure, __rds_rdma_map() unpins
the pages and frees the scatterlist, but rds_ib_free_frmr() can still
return the MR to the pool with the stale pointer set.

This leaves the pool with a dangling scatterlist and can lead to local
privilege escalation. KASAN detects the resulting use-after-free when the
MR is later torn down:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __rds_ib_teardown_mr
Read of size 8

Call Trace:
__rds_ib_teardown_mr
rds_ib_unreg_frmr
rds_ib_flush_mr_pool
rds_ib_flush_mrs
rds_free_mr
rds_setsockopt

Clear the scatterlist fields before returning an error so the caller
retains sole ownership of the scatterlist and its pinned pages. Route a
zero-length DMA mapping through the same cleanup path, and skip unmap
when no mapping was created.

Fixes: 1659185fb4d0 ("RDS: IB: Support Fastreg MR (FRMR) memory registration mode")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dongliang Qin <cccccccccccc777777@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/rds/ib_frmr.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/ib_frmr.c b/net/rds/ib_frmr.c
index bd8611911..fea387952 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib_frmr.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib_frmr.c
@@ -213,7 +213,8 @@ static int rds_ib_map_frmr(struct rds_ib_device *rds_ibdev,
DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
if (unlikely(!ibmr->sg_dma_len)) {
pr_warn("RDS/IB: %s failed!\n", __func__);
- return -EBUSY;
+ ret = -EBUSY;
+ goto out_unmap;
}

frmr->sg_byte_len = 0;
@@ -261,9 +262,13 @@ static int rds_ib_map_frmr(struct rds_ib_device *rds_ibdev,
return ret;

out_unmap:
- ib_dma_unmap_sg(rds_ibdev->dev, ibmr->sg, ibmr->sg_len,
- DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
- ibmr->sg_dma_len = 0;
+ if (ibmr->sg_dma_len) {
+ ib_dma_unmap_sg(rds_ibdev->dev, ibmr->sg, ibmr->sg_len,
+ DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
+ ibmr->sg_dma_len = 0;
+ }
+ ibmr->sg = NULL;
+ ibmr->sg_len = 0;
return ret;
}

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2.43.0