[PATCH v3 0/4] ceph: bound untrusted MDS and monitor reply decoders

From: Michael Bommarito

Date: Tue Jul 07 2026 - 14:06:43 EST


This is v3 of the CephFS decoder-bound series. The four bugs are
independent; each bounds an untrusted length or count that a malicious or
compromised MDS or monitor controls on the wire.

1/4 rejects a final xattr value length that runs past the xattr blob.
2/4 bounds MDSCapAuth path and fs_name copies in handle_session().
3/4 bounds the mdsmap export_targets array for info_v 2/3.
4/4 caps delegated-inode parsing by per-session population and by one
reply's aggregate interval length.

Patches 1/4 and 2/4 carry Viacheslav Dubeyko's Reviewed-by from v1. Patch
3/4 carries his Reviewed-by from v2. Patch 4/4 is reworked to address his
v2 review, described below.

Changes in v3:

- Rebased onto ceph/testing (base-commit fc67edb66b3c9 below); v2 no
longer applied there. The series applies cleanly with git am on that
base. Patches 1-3 are unchanged apart from the rebase.

- Patch 4/4 reworked per review of v2:

- The per-session count is now enforced in a single place,
ceph_insert_deleg_ino(), using atomic_add_unless() rather than an
increment-then-decrement pattern. Since that helper is the only
caller that grows the count, the per-session population can never
exceed CEPH_MAX_DELEG_INOS, so the separate per-session pre-check in
the decode loop is dropped.

- The per-reply aggregate check is kept. It is the bound that stops one
reply from spinning the insert loop on duplicate ranges without
growing the per-session count, which the per-insert cap alone does
not catch.

- CEPH_MAX_DELEG_INOS is cast to u64 where it is compared against and
subtracted from the u64 interval length.

- The redundant warning in the decode loop is removed;
ceph_insert_deleg_ino() already logs when the cap is reached, and the
warnings now report the counts involved.

Michael Bommarito (4):
ceph: bound xattr value length in __build_xattrs()
ceph: bound MDSCapAuth path and fs_name decode in handle_session()
ceph: bound num_export_targets array for mds info v2/v3
ceph: cap delegated inode count in ceph_parse_deleg_inos()

fs/ceph/mds_client.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
fs/ceph/mds_client.h | 1 +
fs/ceph/mdsmap.c | 7 ++++-
fs/ceph/super.h | 9 ++++++
fs/ceph/xattr.c | 1 +
5 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)


base-commit: fc67edb66b3c9924c4e0bb366a92b32ea13c526a
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