[PATCH v2] RDMA/rxe: Use validated num_sge in local buffer

From: Nicolas Morey

Date: Wed Sep 09 2026 - 12:33:56 EST


For both SRQ and non-SRQ receive paths, the WQE is copied into a local
buffer to provide a kernel-owned, validated copy. While calculating the
memcpy size from the validated num_sge prevents overflow during the
copy, memcpy() itself still copies num_sge from shared memory.

A concurrent userspace modification before or during memcpy() leaves
an unvalidated num_sge in the local buffer, leading to potential
out-of-bounds reads in rxe_resp_check_length() and copy_data() causing:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in rxe_receiver+0x8109/0x9ec0 [rdma_rxe]
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88812c4867f8 by task kworker/u9:6/361
Workqueue: rxe_wq do_work [rdma_rxe]
Call Trace:
rxe_receiver+0x8109/0x9ec0 [rdma_rxe]
do_work+0x149/0x610 [rdma_rxe]
process_one_work+0x726/0x10a0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88812c486000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-part-13-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
allocated 2040-byte region [ffff88812c486000, ffff88812c4867f8)

Explicitly assign the validated num_sge to the local buffer after the
copy to prevent this race.

Fixes: 22b8fbded65b ("RDMA/rxe: Fix TOCTOU heap overflow in get_srq_wqe")
Fixes: d6ab440240a0 ("RDMA/rxe: Copy WQE to local buffer in non-SRQ receive path")
Reviewed-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Morey <nmorey@xxxxxxxx>
---
v1 -> v2:
- Added KASAN call trace to the commit log
- Collected Reviewed-by tag.

drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c
index 02b16e2b49b8..cd51042857d6 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c
@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ static enum resp_states get_srq_wqe(struct rxe_qp *qp)
}
size = sizeof(*wqe) + num_sge * sizeof(struct rxe_sge);
memcpy(&qp->resp.srq_wqe, wqe, size);
+ qp->resp.srq_wqe.wqe.dma.num_sge = num_sge;

qp->resp.wqe = &qp->resp.srq_wqe.wqe;
queue_advance_consumer(q, QUEUE_TYPE_FROM_CLIENT);
@@ -328,6 +329,7 @@ static enum resp_states rxe_get_recv_wqe(struct rxe_qp *qp)
}
size = sizeof(*wqe) + num_sge * sizeof(struct rxe_sge);
memcpy(&qp->resp.srq_wqe, wqe, size);
+ qp->resp.srq_wqe.wqe.dma.num_sge = num_sge;

qp->resp.wqe = &qp->resp.srq_wqe.wqe;
return RESPST_CHK_LENGTH;
--
2.54.0