[PATCH 6.6.y 0/2] CVE-2025-38264: backport fix series

[PATCH 6.6.y 0/2] CVE-2025-38264: backport fix series

[Artem Dinaburg]

Hi,

Please consider this backport series for CVE-2025-38264 to 6.6.y.

Apply the patches in this order:
1. llist: add interface to check if a node is on a list. (prerequisite)
2. nvme-tcp: sanitize request list handling (fix)

Patch 1 adds llist helpers to mark an unused node, test its membership,
and restore the unused state after dequeue.

Patch 2 initializes and resets NVMe/TCP request-list membership and
rejects R2T processing while the request remains queued. The code changes
in both patches 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.

An LLM assisted with preparing these backports.

Thanks,
Artem Dinaburg

[PATCH 6.6.y 1/2] llist: add interface to check if a node is on a list.

[Artem Dinaburg]

From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

[ Upstream commit d6b3358a2813bb14791259a2227d9af1e7019ca0 ]

With list.h lists, it is easy to test if a node is on a list, providing
it was initialised and that it is removed with list_del_init().

This patch provides similar functionality for llist.h lists.

 init_llist_node()
marks a node as being not-on-any-list be setting the ->next pointer to
the node itself.
 llist_on_list()
tests if the node is on any list.
 llist_del_first_init()
remove the first element from a llist, and marks it as being off-list.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Artem Dinaburg <artem@trailofbits.com>
---
Hi,

Please consider this backport of the prerequisite 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

 include/linux/llist.h |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/llist.h b/include/linux/llist.h
index 85bda2d02d65be05f9fad9c52f60b49ec483d2a7..dcb91e3bac1ccce7c8327cbeb42462f5eaeb79be 100644
--- a/include/linux/llist.h
+++ b/include/linux/llist.h
@@ -73,6 +73,33 @@ static inline void init_llist_head(struct llist_head *list)
 	list->first = NULL;
 }
 
+/**
+ * init_llist_node - initialize lock-less list node
+ * @node:	the node to be initialised
+ *
+ * In cases where there is a need to test if a node is on
+ * a list or not, this initialises the node to clearly
+ * not be on any list.
+ */
+static inline void init_llist_node(struct llist_node *node)
+{
+	node->next = node;
+}
+
+/**
+ * llist_on_list - test if a lock-list list node is on a list
+ * @node:	the node to test
+ *
+ * When a node is on a list the ->next pointer will be NULL or
+ * some other node.  It can never point to itself.  We use that
+ * in init_llist_node() to record that a node is not on any list,
+ * and here to test whether it is on any list.
+ */
+static inline bool llist_on_list(const struct llist_node *node)
+{
+	return node->next != node;
+}
+
 /**
  * llist_entry - get the struct of this entry
  * @ptr:	the &struct llist_node pointer.
@@ -249,6 +276,21 @@ static inline struct llist_node *__llist_del_all(struct llist_head *head)
 
 extern struct llist_node *llist_del_first(struct llist_head *head);
 
+/**
+ * llist_del_first_init - delete first entry from lock-list and mark is as being off-list
+ * @head:	the head of lock-less list to delete from.
+ *
+ * This behave the same as llist_del_first() except that llist_init_node() is called
+ * on the returned node so that llist_on_list() will report false for the node.
+ */
+static inline struct llist_node *llist_del_first_init(struct llist_head *head)
+{
+	struct llist_node *n = llist_del_first(head);
+
+	if (n)
+		init_llist_node(n);
+	return n;
+}
 struct llist_node *llist_reverse_order(struct llist_node *head);
 
 #endif /* LLIST_H */

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

[Artem Dinaburg]

From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org>

[ 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@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Artem Dinaburg <artem@trailofbits.com>
---
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);
 }

Re: [PATCH 6.6.y 0/2] CVE-2025-38264: backport fix series

[Sasha Levin]

> Please consider this backport series for CVE-2025-38264 to 6.6.y.

Queued the series for 6.6, thanks.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha