[PATCH v2 1/2] nvme-tcp: reject a read that transferred too few bytes

Yehyeong Lee <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Aug 2026 15:02:00 +0900
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.linux-nvme,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
nvme_tcp_recv_data() completes a request once the current C2HData PDU
has been consumed. Nothing compares the total bytes received against
the length the command asked for -- struct nvme_tcp_request has no
receive-side counter, and queue->data_remaining is per queue, not per
command. The layers above do not catch it either, since
blk_mq_end_request() completes for blk_rq_bytes(rq) unconditionally and
nothing here has a residual concept.

A controller can therefore answer a 4096-byte read with 512 bytes and
have it reported as a complete read; user space then gets 4096 bytes of
which 3584 are whatever was already in the page. I reproduced that with
a test target.

Count the bytes received and refuse to complete a successful read whose
count does not match, at the two NVME_TCP_F_DATA_SUCCESS paths and in
nvme_tcp_process_nvme_cqe(). Only REQ_OP_READ is checked, because there
the length comes from the sectors the request covers; a passthrough
command is built by its submitter, which picks both the command and the
buffer, so the kernel has nothing to compare against.

Fixes: 3f2304f8c6d6 ("nvme-tcp: add NVMe over TCP host driver")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Yehyeong Lee <[email protected]>
---
v1 -> v2: an automated review pointed out that the check also applied to
passthrough commands, where the kernel does not know the command's real
transfer length; restricted to REQ_OP_READ.  Patch 2/2 is unchanged.

 drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
index ba5c7b3e2a7c..4b72f555495d 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ struct nvme_tcp_request {
 
 	struct bio		*curr_bio;
 	struct iov_iter		iter;
+	u32			data_recvd;
 
 	/* send state */
 	size_t			offset;
@@ -612,6 +613,29 @@ static void nvme_tcp_error_recovery(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
 	queue_work(nvme_reset_wq, &to_tcp_ctrl(ctrl)->err_work);
 }
 
+/*
+ * NVMe has no short read: a read that completes successfully must
+ * have transferred everything it asked for.
+ */
+static bool nvme_tcp_data_in_short(struct nvme_tcp_queue *queue,
+				   struct request *rq)
+{
+	struct nvme_tcp_request *req = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(rq);
+
+	if (req->status != cpu_to_le16(NVME_SC_SUCCESS))
+		return false;
+	if (req_op(rq) != REQ_OP_READ || !req->data_len)
+		return false;
+	if (likely(req->data_recvd == req->data_len))
+		return false;
+
+	dev_err(queue->ctrl->ctrl.device,
+		"queue %d tag %#x short data-in: got %u of %u\n",
+		nvme_tcp_queue_id(queue), rq->tag,
+		req->data_recvd, req->data_len);
+	return true;
+}
+
 static int nvme_tcp_process_nvme_cqe(struct nvme_tcp_queue *queue,
 		struct nvme_completion *cqe)
 {
@@ -631,6 +655,9 @@ static int nvme_tcp_process_nvme_cqe(struct nvme_tcp_queue *queue,
 	if (req->status == cpu_to_le16(NVME_SC_SUCCESS))
 		req->status = cqe->status;
 
+	if (unlikely(nvme_tcp_data_in_short(queue, rq)))
+		return -EPROTO;
+
 	if (!nvme_try_complete_req(rq, req->status, cqe->result))
 		nvme_complete_rq(rq);
 	queue->nr_cqe++;
@@ -953,6 +980,7 @@ static int nvme_tcp_recv_data(struct nvme_tcp_queue *queue, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		*len -= recv_len;
 		*offset += recv_len;
 		queue->data_remaining -= recv_len;
+		req->data_recvd += recv_len;
 	}
 
 	if (!queue->data_remaining) {
@@ -961,6 +989,8 @@ static int nvme_tcp_recv_data(struct nvme_tcp_queue *queue, struct sk_buff *skb,
 			queue->ddgst_remaining = NVME_TCP_DIGEST_LENGTH;
 		} else {
 			if (pdu->hdr.flags & NVME_TCP_F_DATA_SUCCESS) {
+				if (unlikely(nvme_tcp_data_in_short(queue, rq)))
+					return -EPROTO;
 				nvme_tcp_end_request(rq,
 						le16_to_cpu(req->status));
 				queue->nr_cqe++;
@@ -1009,6 +1039,9 @@ static int nvme_tcp_recv_ddgst(struct nvme_tcp_queue *queue,
 					pdu->command_id);
 		struct nvme_tcp_request *req = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(rq);
 
+		if (unlikely(nvme_tcp_data_in_short(queue, rq)))
+			return -EPROTO;
+
 		nvme_tcp_end_request(rq, le16_to_cpu(req->status));
 		queue->nr_cqe++;
 	}
@@ -2736,6 +2769,7 @@ static blk_status_t nvme_tcp_setup_cmd_pdu(struct nvme_ns *ns,
 	req->status = cpu_to_le16(NVME_SC_SUCCESS);
 	req->offset = 0;
 	req->data_sent = 0;
+	req->data_recvd = 0;
 	req->pdu_len = 0;
 	req->pdu_sent = 0;
 	req->h2cdata_left = 0;
-- 
2.43.0