[PATCH] drbd: keep discarded packet size unsigned
From: Weiming Shi
Date: Sun Sep 27 2026 - 10:21:01 EST
Packet lengths are decoded into an unsigned int, but
ignore_remaining_packet() stores pi->size in an int. Values above
INT_MAX therefore become negative; min_t(int, ...) preserves the negative
value and drbd_recv() converts it to size_t, allowing the receive to
overrun the 4 KiB rbuf.
Keep the remaining size unsigned and clamp it as an unsigned value so that
each receive is bounded by DRBD_SOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE.
A KASAN reproducer reported:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _copy_to_iter
Write of size 32672 at addr ffff888027129000 by task drbd_r_r0/5002
Call Trace:
_copy_to_iter lib/iov_iter.c:197
simple_copy_to_iter net/core/datagram.c:521
__skb_datagram_iter net/core/datagram.c:435
skb_copy_datagram_iter net/core/datagram.c:537
tcp_recvmsg_locked net/ipv4/tcp.c:2846
tcp_recvmsg net/ipv4/tcp.c:2949
inet_recvmsg net/ipv4/af_inet.c:896
sock_recvmsg net/socket.c:1159
drbd_recv_short drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c:322
drbd_recv drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c:331
config_unknown_volume drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c:3624
receive_SyncParam drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c:3671
drbd_receiver drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c:5366
Fixes: 4a76b1612f35 ("drbd: Map from (connection, volume number) to device in the receive handlers")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: <co+4618907cccdeffa@xxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
index 58b95bf4bdca6..3fb73fbfd5f27 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
@@ -3616,10 +3616,10 @@ static struct crypto_shash *drbd_crypto_alloc_digest_safe(
static int ignore_remaining_packet(struct drbd_connection *connection, struct packet_info *pi)
{
void *buffer = connection->data.rbuf;
- int size = pi->size;
+ unsigned int size = pi->size;
while (size) {
- int s = min_t(int, size, DRBD_SOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE);
+ int s = min_t(unsigned int, size, DRBD_SOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE);
s = drbd_recv(connection, buffer, s);
if (s <= 0) {
if (s < 0)
--
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