CVE-2026-64102 PUBLISHED

RDMA/siw: Reject MPA FPDU length underflow before signed receive math

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 19.07.2026 Updated: 20.07.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/siw: Reject MPA FPDU length underflow before signed receive math

A malicious connected siw peer can send an iWARP FPDU whose MPA length field (c_hdr->mpa_len, 16 bit big-endian, peer-controlled) is smaller than the fixed DDP/RDMAP header for the announced opcode. Soft-iWARP parses the full header in siw_get_hdr() based on iwarp_pktinfo[opcode] .hdr_len, but never compares mpa_len against that header length.

siw_tcp_rx_data() then derives

<pre>srx->fpdu_part_rem = be16_to_cpu(mpa_len) - fpdu_part_rcvd + MPA_HDR_SIZE; </pre>

where fpdu_part_rcvd equals iwarp_pktinfo[opcode].hdr_len at this point. For a tagged WRITE (hdr_len 16, MPA_HDR_SIZE 2) the smallest on-wire mpa_len of 0 yields fpdu_part_rem = -14, and any mpa_len below hdr_len - MPA_HDR_SIZE underflows to a negative int.

The signed value then flows into siw_proc_write()/siw_proc_rresp() as

<pre>bytes = min(srx->fpdu_part_rem, srx->skb_new); </pre>

is handed to siw_check_mem() as an int len (whose interval check addr + len > mem->va + mem->len is satisfied for a valid base when len is negative), and reaches siw_rx_data() -> siw_rx_kva() / siw_rx_umem() -> skb_copy_bits() as a signed copy length. The header copy branch in skb_copy_bits() promotes that to size_t, producing a multi-gigabyte read.

KASAN under a KUnit harness that drives the real kernel TCP receive path -- a loopback AF_INET socketpair, the malformed FPDU written via kernel_sendmsg, sk_data_ready firing in softirq, tcp_read_sock dispatching to siw_tcp_rx_data -- reports:

<pre>BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in skb_copy_bits+0x284/0x480 Read of size 4294967295 at addr ffff888... Call Trace: skb_copy_bits siw_rx_kva siw_rx_data siw_check_mem siw_proc_write siw_tcp_rx_data __tcp_read_sock siw_qp_llp_data_ready tcp_data_ready tcp_data_queue </pre>

Add the missing invariant at the earliest point where the peer header is fully assembled. iwarp_pktinfo[*].hdr_len - MPA_HDR_SIZE is exactly the value the siw transmitter uses as the minimum mpa_len for each opcode (drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp.c:33), so this matches the protocol contract. Out-of-range FPDUs terminate the connection with TERM_ERROR_LAYER_LLP / LLP_ETYPE_MPA / LLP_ECODE_FPDU_START -- which is RFC 5044 Section 8 error code 3 ("Marker and ULPDU Length fields do not agree on the start of an FPDU"), the correct framing-error class for this inconsistency.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to 683f7cfbf514193d63c0efa079f3352bde84c2e0 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to 4a331582011d9e8089af8aa2a61ec6b4443bb245 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to 33a8b5e971e294ec2a7b74211c545e09efd8e9ac (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to 14553be882d9ce91749c9d64041de66e34ad8e70 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to c7c0c0f4379dedec12d24dbb9dded5d2db7fd9f2 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to 1012896f4225e8f801ff3c1648023845b66dfb11 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to 775b4dc9618a99a1fa48b57554041a5dc17e1336 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 to 0ce1bc9e46ecabe84772bb561e373c0d9876d6f2 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.3 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.3 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.258 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.209 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.175 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.142 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.92 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.34 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.11 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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