[PATCH] RDMA/srp: fix heap information leak on a truncated SRP_CRED_REQ

From: Yehyeong Lee

Date: Wed Jul 29 2026 - 05:40:50 EST


srp_recv_done() passes wc->byte_len to srp_process_rsp(). It passes
nothing to srp_process_cred_req() and srp_process_aer_req(), which read
fixed-size fields from the receive buffer without checking that those
fields were received.

The buffer size is max_ti_iu_len, which comes from the login response
and is not validated. A target that advertises 8 and then sends an
8-byte SRP_CRED_REQ makes the initiator read req->tag from beyond the
end of the buffer. req->tag is copied into the SRP_CRED_RSP and sent
back, so those bytes reach the target. SRP_AER_REQ behaves the same way
and also reads req->lun.

The leak is 8 bytes per response. max_ti_iu_len also decides which slab
cache the buffer comes from. With 8 the buffer is a kmalloc-8 object and
the read is entirely outside it:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in srp_recv_done+0x172b/0x1aa0
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888104714da8 by task kworker/u8:3/50
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
allocated 8-byte region [ffff888104714da0, ffff888104714da8)

Without KASAN the returned bytes are whatever is next in the slab. One
run returned ".strtab".

rsp->data[3] in srp_process_rsp() has the same problem: only
resp_data_len is checked before it is read.

Drop a request that is shorter than the structure being parsed, and
check byte_len before the tsk_mgmt read.

Fixes: bb12588a38e6 ("IB/srp: Implement SRP_CRED_REQ and SRP_AER_REQ")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yehyeong Lee <yhlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Tested on v7.2-rc5 with a target patched to advertise max_ti_iu_len = 8
and to send an 8-byte SRP_CRED_REQ. Before the patch KASAN reports the
read above on every run; after it the request is dropped and the report
is gone. A conforming target is unaffected - the new checks never fire,
the LUN comes up and I/O round-trips.

That setup also trips an unrelated use-after-free at teardown, in
ib_process_cq_direct() called from srp_destroy_qp(). It reproduces the
same way with this patch reverted; both arms need kasan_multi_shot to
show it, since the read above otherwise consumes the single report. I
will report that one separately.

drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c
index acbd787de265..93dcd15682d0 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c
@@ -1945,7 +1945,8 @@ static void srp_process_rsp(struct srp_rdma_ch *ch, struct srp_rsp *rsp,
ch->req_lim += be32_to_cpu(rsp->req_lim_delta);
if (rsp->tag == ch->tsk_mgmt_tag) {
ch->tsk_mgmt_status = -1;
- if (be32_to_cpu(rsp->resp_data_len) >= 4)
+ if (be32_to_cpu(rsp->resp_data_len) >= 4 &&
+ byte_len >= sizeof(*rsp) + 4)
ch->tsk_mgmt_status = rsp->data[3];
complete(&ch->tsk_mgmt_done);
} else {
@@ -2045,13 +2046,20 @@ static int srp_response_common(struct srp_rdma_ch *ch, s32 req_delta,
}

static void srp_process_cred_req(struct srp_rdma_ch *ch,
- struct srp_cred_req *req)
+ struct srp_cred_req *req, u32 byte_len)
{
- struct srp_cred_rsp rsp = {
- .opcode = SRP_CRED_RSP,
- .tag = req->tag,
- };
- s32 delta = be32_to_cpu(req->req_lim_delta);
+ struct srp_cred_rsp rsp = { .opcode = SRP_CRED_RSP };
+ s32 delta;
+
+ if (byte_len < sizeof(*req)) {
+ shost_printk(KERN_ERR, ch->target->scsi_host, PFX
+ "dropping truncated SRP_CRED_REQ (%u bytes received, %zu expected)\n",
+ byte_len, sizeof(*req));
+ return;
+ }
+
+ rsp.tag = req->tag;
+ delta = be32_to_cpu(req->req_lim_delta);

if (srp_response_common(ch, delta, &rsp, sizeof(rsp)))
shost_printk(KERN_ERR, ch->target->scsi_host, PFX
@@ -2059,14 +2067,21 @@ static void srp_process_cred_req(struct srp_rdma_ch *ch,
}

static void srp_process_aer_req(struct srp_rdma_ch *ch,
- struct srp_aer_req *req)
+ struct srp_aer_req *req, u32 byte_len)
{
struct srp_target_port *target = ch->target;
- struct srp_aer_rsp rsp = {
- .opcode = SRP_AER_RSP,
- .tag = req->tag,
- };
- s32 delta = be32_to_cpu(req->req_lim_delta);
+ struct srp_aer_rsp rsp = { .opcode = SRP_AER_RSP };
+ s32 delta;
+
+ if (byte_len < sizeof(*req)) {
+ shost_printk(KERN_ERR, target->scsi_host, PFX
+ "dropping truncated SRP_AER_REQ (%u bytes received, %zu expected)\n",
+ byte_len, sizeof(*req));
+ return;
+ }
+
+ rsp.tag = req->tag;
+ delta = be32_to_cpu(req->req_lim_delta);

shost_printk(KERN_ERR, target->scsi_host, PFX
"ignoring AER for LUN %llu\n", scsilun_to_int(&req->lun));
@@ -2108,11 +2123,11 @@ static void srp_recv_done(struct ib_cq *cq, struct ib_wc *wc)
break;

case SRP_CRED_REQ:
- srp_process_cred_req(ch, iu->buf);
+ srp_process_cred_req(ch, iu->buf, wc->byte_len);
break;

case SRP_AER_REQ:
- srp_process_aer_req(ch, iu->buf);
+ srp_process_aer_req(ch, iu->buf, wc->byte_len);
break;

case SRP_T_LOGOUT:
--
2.43.0