xprtrdma: Fix bcall rep leak and unbounded peek (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-72466
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.74 % · percentile 55 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xprtrdma: Fix bcall rep leak and unbounded peek rpcrdma_is_bcall() decodes a reply's first words to decide whether the frame is a backchannel call. Two issues in that decode path let a short or malformed reply leak the receive buffer and drain the Receive queue. First, the speculative peek p = xdr_inline_decode(xdr, 0); /* five p++ reads follow */ asks xdr_inline_decode() for zero bytes, which returns xdr->p without consulting xdr->end. The five subsequent __be32 reads can then walk up to 20 bytes past the wire payload into stale regbuf contents and misclassify the reply as a backchannel call. Second, after the post-peek p = xdr_inline_decode(xdr, 3 * sizeof(*p)); if (unlikely(!p)) return true; the short-header arm returns true without calling rpcrdma_bc_receive_call(). The contract with the caller is that a true return transfers ownership of rep to the backchannel path: rpcrdma_reply_handler() if (rpcrdma_is_bcall(r_xprt, rep)) return; /* bare return, skips out_post */ ... out_post: rpcrdma_post_recvs(r_xprt, credits + ...); Because rpcrdma_bc_receive_call() never ran, no one took rep, but rpcrdma_reply_handler still bare-returns past rpcrdma_rep_put() and rpcrdma_post_recvs(). The rep, with its persistently DMA-mapped receive buffer, is orphaned on rb_all_reps and freed only at transport teardown. This completion reposts nothing, so its slot is reclaimed only when a later forward-channel reply reaches out_post and rpcrdma_post_recvs() allocates a fresh rep to backfill; absent that traffic the Receive queue drains and the peer's Sends draw RNR NAKs. Fix by consulting xdr->end after the zero-length peek so the five __be32 reads cannot run unless 20 bytes of wire payload remain. A byte-precise comparison against xdr->end is required because a non-4-aligned receive rounds the stream's word count up past the true payload. Also return false from the short-header arm so the reply falls through the normal out_norqst cleanup chain (rpcrdma_rep_put() plus rpcrdma_post_recvs()).

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 41c8f70f5a3db7e06179186b6525fd9ee1d7d314 < 0cee8f9c3b14bd6dee9c4310090a7f45b89b834f ; affected 41c8f70f5a3db7e06179186b6525fd9ee1d7d314 < 7afc2f8d2fd9394724df9eaf22ce7a71029a5fba ; affected 41c8f70f5a3db7e06179186b6525fd9ee1d7d314 < 88b5346284a184a6b7d019912232a571d672d3e3 ; affected 41c8f70f5a3db7e06179186b6525fd9ee1d7d314 < 07aa506436be7634e381e1e1f6d0efa9efc81ecc ; affected 41c8f70f5a3db7e06179186b6525fd9ee1d7d314 < d7a2870dde3bb09d51d6b9c877642996ad6b92dd ; affected 41c8f70f5a3db7e06179186b6525fd9ee1d7d314 < 118a16a18c59f7ad8084b2d13988839b669fca10
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.14 ; unaffected 0 < 4.14 ; unaffected 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.97 ≤ 6.12.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD