[PATCH v2 3/3] scsi: libiscsi: validate the task named by a management response

Yehyeong Lee <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 13:05:46 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.linux.scsi,gmane.linux.iscsi.open-iscsi,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
__iscsi_complete_pdu() fetches the task for five response types from one
place and checks only that the index resolved:

      case ISCSI_OP_LOGOUT_RSP:
      case ISCSI_OP_LOGIN_RSP:
      case ISCSI_OP_TEXT_RSP:
      case ISCSI_OP_SCSI_TMFUNC_RSP:
      case ISCSI_OP_NOOP_IN:
              task = iscsi_itt_to_task(conn, hdr->itt);
              if (!task)
                      return ISCSI_ERR_BAD_ITT;

iscsi_itt_to_task() bounds the index against cmds_max and looks at
nothing else, so a target can name any slot in the pool, including one
that has never been used. task->conn is then NULL, and both
iscsi_nop_out_rsp() and iscsi_complete_task() dereference it. One
unsolicited NOP-In is enough; a Text Response carrying the same ITT
crashes in iscsi_complete_task() instead.

Require the task to be in flight and not a SCSI command, the way
iscsi_itt_to_ctask() does for the command opcodes.

[    6.298634] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000c: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
[    6.298642] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000060-0x0000000000000067]
[    6.298652] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 111 Comm: iscsistart Not tainted 7.2.0-rc5-ISCSI1-gf5098b6bae76 #1 PREEMPT(lazy)
[    6.298654] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[    6.298656] RIP: 0010:iscsi_nop_out_rsp.constprop.0+0x46/0x160
[    6.298691] Code: c1 ea 03 48 83 ec 08 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 f5 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8b 6b 58 48 8d 7d 60 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 c0 00 00 00 48 8b 45 60 48 39 c3 74 50 48 b8 00
[    6.298698] RSP: 0018:ffff88806c907be8 EFLAGS: 00010206
[    6.298701] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff888006116800 RCX: 0000000000000020
[    6.298702] RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: ffff88800525d578 RDI: 0000000000000060
[    6.298703] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[    6.298706] R10: 0000000000000020 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[    6.298706] R13: 000000000000002e R14: ffff8880056eb440 R15: ffff888006116800
[    6.298707] FS:  00007fc02d1c2740(0000) GS:ffff8880b29bc000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[    6.298710] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[    6.298711] CR2: 000055fe3b56ddf8 CR3: 00000000053b9004 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
[    6.298712] PKRU: 55555554
[    6.298713] Call Trace:
[    6.298714]  <IRQ>
[    6.298714]  __iscsi_complete_pdu+0x13a8/0x22a0
[    6.298758]  iscsi_complete_pdu+0x54/0xa0
[    6.298759]  iscsi_tcp_hdr_recv_done+0x870/0x2c80
[    6.298778]  iscsi_tcp_recv_skb+0x31e/0xec0
[    6.298800]  iscsi_sw_tcp_recv+0x12f/0x390
[    6.298804]  __tcp_read_sock+0x1ab/0x810
[    6.298812]  iscsi_sw_tcp_data_ready+0x18b/0x510
[    6.298814]  tcp_rcv_established+0x1f56/0x3a00
[    6.298842]  tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x449/0x960
[    6.298847]  tcp_v4_rcv+0x2245/0x3bc0

Fixes: 7996a778ff8c ("[SCSI] iscsi: add libiscsi")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Yehyeong Lee <[email protected]>
---
Measured on 7.2-rc5 with KASAN over a proxy that injects one PDU. An
unsolicited NOP-In naming an unused index oopses in 5 of 5 runs and none
of 5 with the patch; a Text Response carrying the same ITT oopses in 5
of 5 and none of 5. A Reject reflecting the ITT of an in-flight abort
TMF warns and underflows the refcount unpatched and does neither with
the series. Normal I/O and a NOP-Out ping rejected by the target are
unchanged.
 drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
index 774ed4739891..d62d6c5ef8d6 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
@@ -1287,7 +1287,7 @@ int __iscsi_complete_pdu(struct iscsi_conn *conn, struct iscsi_hdr *hdr,
 	case ISCSI_OP_SCSI_TMFUNC_RSP:
 	case ISCSI_OP_NOOP_IN:
 		task = iscsi_itt_to_task(conn, hdr->itt);
-		if (!task)
+		if (!task || task->state == ISCSI_TASK_FREE || task->sc)
 			return ISCSI_ERR_BAD_ITT;
 		break;
 	default:
-- 
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