From: Edward Srouji <edwards@nvidia.com>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
"Yishai Hadas" <yishaih@nvidia.com>,
Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Cc: <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Edward Srouji" <edwards@nvidia.com>, Uri Dar <udar@nvidia.com>,
<stable@vger.kernel.org>, Michael Gur <michaelgur@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH rdma-next 0/2] RDMA: Fix DEVX UMEM mailbox size overflow
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 16:42:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261109-devx-umem-mailbox-overflow-v1-0-4a63baab25dc@nvidia.com> (raw)
Registering a DEVX UMEM builds a CREATE_UMEM mailbox whose size grows
with the number of MTTs, i.e. with the user-supplied length and
pgsz_bitmap. The size is stored in a u32, so a UMEM of about 2TB with
4KB pages wraps it, the mailbox is under-allocated and
mlx5_ib_populate_pas() writes past its end.
Patch 1 computes the size with overflow checks into an int, the in_size
type of mlx5_cmd_exec(), and rejects UMEMs whose mailbox does not fit.
Patch 2 handles the remaining corner: _uverbs_alloc() adds a small
header to the request before calling kvmalloc(), so a mailbox just
under INT_MAX can still push kvmalloc() over its INT_MAX limit and
trigger a WARN. Since these sizes come from userspace, the allocation
now uses __GFP_NOWARN and fails with -ENOMEM.
Sizes just below INT_MAX also overflow the block count in
mlx5_calc_cmd_blocks(). That predates this series and fails safely
with -ENOMEM before the command reaches firmware, so it is left for a
separate mlx5_core change.
The overflow was found with an AI-assisted static analysis tool and
confirmed by code review.
Patch 1 relies on size_mul() and mixed-type check_add_overflow(), so
stable trees older than 6.1 will need a manual backport.
Signed-off-by: Edward Srouji <edwards@nvidia.com>
---
Uri Dar (2):
RDMA/mlx5: Fix DEVX UMEM mailbox size truncation
RDMA/core: Don't warn on oversized bundle allocations
drivers/infiniband/core/ib_core_uverbs.c | 2 +-
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c | 15 +++++++++------
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: e50525a486300e5ff8014c9985b8477b2fca0368
change-id: 20261109-devx-umem-mailbox-overflow-c741bc73deb4
Best regards,
--
Edward Srouji <edwards@nvidia.com>
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-09 14:43 UTC|newest]
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2026-11-09 14:42 Edward Srouji [this message]
2026-11-09 14:42 ` [PATCH rdma-next 1/2] RDMA/mlx5: Fix DEVX UMEM mailbox size truncation Edward Srouji
2026-11-09 14:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-11-09 14:42 ` [PATCH rdma-next 2/2] RDMA/core: Don't warn on oversized bundle allocations Edward Srouji
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