nvmet-tcp: Do not WARN on remotely-controlled oversized SGL allocations (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-80788
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.19 % · percentile 9 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet-tcp: Do not WARN on remotely-controlled oversized SGL allocations 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.

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Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 < 8d01f0d0e96485e39ad89b859ef85e1dc3020465 ; affected 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 < 7b6a54d4e7b0da423c2b53ed293fd36b16c0b19e ; affected 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 < e7077e6c45423dd2bb7de7b5fc4b018a8e6c4741 ; affected 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 < 86cc450022473c4a29b43a09f3ec22a9ef566dac ; affected 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 < c509f20be1cabda3087810bb2d658d66b3f31f35 ; affected 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 < 9c95f7e66c62ee6c6abedcf1c04311f430ff5833
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.0 ; unaffected 0 < 5.0 ; unaffected 5.10.267 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.218 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.185 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.154 ≤ 6.6.*

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
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