[PATCH 6.6.y 2/2] nvme-tcp: sanitize request list handling

From: Artem Dinaburg

Date: Wed Oct 14 2026 - 15:13:38 EST


From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 0bf04c874fcb1ae46a863034296e4b33d8fbd66c ]

Validate the request in nvme_tcp_handle_r2t() to ensure it's not part of
any list, otherwise a malicious R2T PDU might inject a loop in request
list processing.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Artem Dinaburg <artem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Hi,

Please consider this backport of the fix for CVE-2025-38264 to 6.6.y.

The code changes are identical to upstream.

The complete fix is already present in 6.12.y, 6.18.y and 7.2.y.

Build-tested only as part of a cumulative 6.6.y series: x86_64 objects
(allmodconfig, CONFIG_WERROR=y); no runtime testing.

Thanks,
Artem Dinaburg

drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
index 88489a787e677b142c3ce89db0ea06603c021bbd..e270024fe549096b8d8588e73b67cc2aed28d910 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
@@ -385,7 +385,8 @@ nvme_tcp_fetch_request(struct nvme_tcp_queue *queue)
return NULL;
}

- list_del(&req->entry);
+ list_del_init(&req->entry);
+ init_llist_node(&req->lentry);
return req;
}

@@ -493,6 +494,8 @@ static int nvme_tcp_init_request(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set,
req->queue = queue;
nvme_req(rq)->ctrl = &ctrl->ctrl;
nvme_req(rq)->cmd = &pdu->cmd;
+ init_llist_node(&req->lentry);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&req->entry);

return 0;
}
@@ -739,6 +742,14 @@ static int nvme_tcp_handle_r2t(struct nvme_tcp_queue *queue,
return -EPROTO;
}

+ if (llist_on_list(&req->lentry) ||
+ !list_empty(&req->entry)) {
+ dev_err(queue->ctrl->ctrl.device,
+ "req %d unexpected r2t while processing request\n",
+ rq->tag);
+ return -EPROTO;
+ }
+
req->pdu_len = 0;
req->h2cdata_left = r2t_length;
req->h2cdata_offset = r2t_offset;
@@ -2374,6 +2385,8 @@ static void nvme_tcp_submit_async_event(struct nvme_ctrl *arg)
ctrl->async_req.offset = 0;
ctrl->async_req.curr_bio = NULL;
ctrl->async_req.data_len = 0;
+ init_llist_node(&ctrl->async_req.lentry);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctrl->async_req.entry);

nvme_tcp_queue_request(&ctrl->async_req, true, true);
}