CVE-2026-64269 PUBLISHED

RDMA/rtrs-srv: Bound RDMA-Write length to chunk size in rdma_write_sg

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 25.07.2026 Updated: 25.07.2026

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

RDMA/rtrs-srv: Bound RDMA-Write length to chunk size in rdma_write_sg

When the server answers an RTRS READ, rdma_write_sg() builds the source scatter/gather entry for the IB_WR_RDMA_WRITE that returns data to the peer. Its length is taken directly from the wire descriptor:

plist->length = le32_to_cpu(id->rd_msg->desc[0].len);

rd_msg points into the chunk buffer that the remote peer filled via RDMA-WRITE-WITH-IMM (rtrs_srv_rdma_done() -> process_io_req() -> process_read()), so desc[0].len is attacker-controlled and, before this change, was only rejected when zero. The source address is the fixed chunk start (dma_addr[msg_id]) and the source lkey is the PD-wide local_dma_lkey, which is not tied to the chunk's MR mapping, so the verbs layer does not constrain the transfer length to max_chunk_size. msg_id and off are bounded against queue_depth and max_chunk_size in rtrs_srv_rdma_done(), but desc[0].len is a separate field that was not checked against the chunk size.

A peer that advertises desc[0].len larger than max_chunk_size can make the posted RDMA write read past the chunk's mapped region. The resulting behaviour depends on the IOMMU configuration: with no IOMMU or in passthrough mode the read may extend into memory adjacent to the chunk and be returned to the peer, which can disclose host memory; with a translating IOMMU the out-of-range access is expected to fault and abort the connection. In either case the transfer exceeds what the protocol permits and is driven by a remote peer.

Reject a descriptor length above max_chunk_size, mirroring the existing off >= max_chunk_size bound in rtrs_srv_rdma_done(). Legitimate clients do not exceed it: the client sets desc[0].len to its MR length, which is capped at the negotiated max_io_size (max_chunk_size - MAX_HDR_SIZE).

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 9cb837480424e78ed585376f944088246685aec3 to 68c09762172f6224e9ddf9b0a60bacbb36e443eb (excl.)
  • affected from 9cb837480424e78ed585376f944088246685aec3 to 6cada540150894e81042a0ae0c796a21a9a877da (excl.)
  • affected from 9cb837480424e78ed585376f944088246685aec3 to 2912f3d40355dabc08fdbaaf2764d02445fe88dc (excl.)
  • affected from 9cb837480424e78ed585376f944088246685aec3 to 6f40246f4312fdbab5a13cc440adebf95eb2aa66 (excl.)
  • affected from 9cb837480424e78ed585376f944088246685aec3 to 5a45d0aa1fa50a333ce5763ade744e2d89838667 (excl.)
  • affected from 9cb837480424e78ed585376f944088246685aec3 to da3e44add94b05dfde56f898421922f5cf35705f (excl.)
  • affected from 9cb837480424e78ed585376f944088246685aec3 to 963af8d97a8c6a117134a8d0db1415e0489200b1 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.8 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.212 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.178 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.145 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.96 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.39 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc1 to * (incl.)

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