Re: [PATCH] io_uring/net: don't truncate the bundle segment length to int
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:34:25 -0400
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.io-uring,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable |
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| Organization | SUSE |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Baul Lee <[email protected]> writes: > io_bundle_nbufs() works out how many buffers a short bundle transfer > consumed by walking the mapped iovec and subtracting each segment from the > transferred length: > > do { > int this_len = min_t(int, iov[nbufs].iov_len, ret); > > nbufs++; > ret -= this_len; > } while (ret); > > iov_len is a size_t while this_len is an int, so a segment longer than > INT_MAX comes out negative. ret then grows instead of shrinking and the > loop keeps walking, reading past the end of the array it was handed. > > The recv bundle path can hand it such a segment. io_recv_buf_select() > folds sr->mshot_total_len into arg.max_len, and that field is unsigned and > taken straight from sqe->optlen: > > if (sr->flags & IORING_RECV_MSHOT_LIM) > arg.max_len = min_not_zero(arg.max_len, sr->mshot_total_len); > > With sqe->len left at 0 nothing else lowers it, so arg.max_len can be > 0xffffffff. io_ring_buffers_peek() clamps each buffer against that rather > than against INT_MAX and records an iov_len above INT_MAX; a short receive > over that bundle then enters the loop above. > > An unprivileged multishot IORING_OP_RECV with IOSQE_BUFFER_SELECT and > IORING_RECVSEND_BUNDLE, a provided buffer ring registered with > IOU_PBUF_RING_INC holding two buffers, and two bytes of data is enough to > reach it. The two-entry iovec is a 32-byte kmalloc: > > BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in io_bundle_nbufs+0x114/0x1a8 > Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000d39a1b68 by task io_repro/165 > Call trace: > io_bundle_nbufs+0x114/0x1a8 > io_recv_finish+0x138/0xa38 > io_recv+0x38c/0x1008 > io_issue_sqe+0xc4/0x155c > io_submit_sqes+0x6d0/0x1fac > __arm64_sys_io_uring_enter+0x30c/0x1180 > > Allocated by task 165: > __kmalloc_noprof+0x1b8/0x444 > io_ring_buffers_peek+0x57c/0xbb4 > io_buffers_peek+0x168/0x2a0 > io_recv+0x598/0x1008 > > The buggy address is located 8 bytes to the right of > allocated 32-byte region [ffff0000d39a1b40, ffff0000d39a1b60) > > Count in size_t. ret is positive by the time the loop runs, since the > function returns early for ret <= 0, so widening loses nothing; this_len > stays bounded by ret, and the mapped length is never less than ret, so the > walk ends inside the array. > > Fixing it here rather than by capping arg.max_len keeps the accounting > correct for every caller and does not disturb buffer selection: an > arg.max_len of 0 is a distinct "not set yet" state that > io_ring_buffers_peek() tests before it applies its own INT_MAX default, > and pre-filling it changes which bundles get expanded. > > Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <[email protected]> > > Fixes: a05d1f625c7a ("io_uring/net: support bundles for send") > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Baul Lee <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <[email protected]> -- Gabriel Krisman Bertazi