[PATCH] nvmet-tcp: Do not WARN on remotely-controlled oversized SGL allocations
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 16:05:54 EST
When fuzzing the nvme target code, I tripped a kernel warning in
nvmet_tcp_map_data() because the length passed into the allocator is
controlled by the remote initiator.
A remote initiator that sends a command with an SGL claiming a huge
number, can create a scatterlist and iovec allocation of over 1 million
entries, which causes the backing kmalloc call to exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER
and then the page allocator will trip on a WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP() message:
WARNING: mm/page_alloc.c:5280 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof
Workqueue: nvmet_tcp_wq nvmet_tcp_io_work
...
sgl_alloc_order
nvmet_tcp_map_data
nvmet_tcp_try_recv_pdu
As it's never good to trip a kernel warning remotely due to many systems
having panic-on-warn enabled, let's silence it by just add GFP_NOWARN to
the allocation flags.
Assisted-by: gkh_clanker_2000
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c
index 75a276d73be3..d61622ed8dd8 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c
@@ -433,13 +433,14 @@ static int nvmet_tcp_map_data(struct nvmet_tcp_cmd *cmd)
}
cmd->req.transfer_len += len;
- cmd->req.sg = sgl_alloc(len, GFP_KERNEL, &cmd->req.sg_cnt);
+ cmd->req.sg = sgl_alloc(len, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN, &cmd->req.sg_cnt);
if (!cmd->req.sg)
return NVME_SC_INTERNAL;
cmd->cur_sg = cmd->req.sg;
if (nvmet_tcp_has_data_in(cmd)) {
- cmd->iov = kmalloc_objs(*cmd->iov, cmd->req.sg_cnt);
+ cmd->iov = kmalloc_objs(*cmd->iov, cmd->req.sg_cnt,
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!cmd->iov)
goto err;
}
---
base-commit: f5098b6bae761e346ebcd9da7f95622c04733cff
change-id: 20260727-nvme-tcp-5cce0f73b0cc
Best regards,
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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>