From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: "Jérémy Jean" <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvmet-auth: serialize access to DH-HMAC-CHAP state to fix UAF
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:38:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <as5QaLgssz5ZK7IB@kbusch-mbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261003210154.2453077-2-Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr>
On Sat, Oct 03, 2026 at 09:01:55PM +0000, Jérémy Jean wrote:
> A REPLY AUTH_SEND command can derive a dhchap_skey key while a
> concurrent AUTH_RECEIVE command observing this REPLY state executes
> the failure path and frees that key. The REPLY command then continues
> and writes into freed memory, causing a use-after-free. KASAN reports
> it as:
>
> BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __sha256_final
> Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800359c540
> ...
> nvmet_auth_sq_free (drivers/nvme/target/auth.c:237)
> nvmet_execute_auth_receive (drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c:621)
>
> Add a mutex to each submission queue to serialize authentication
> commands and timeout handling. Unlock the mutex before completing
> requests and ignore outdated timeout callbacks. Limit timeout delays
> to prevent immediate expiry on 32-bit kernels.
Thanks, applied to nvme-7.4.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-13 15:38 UTC|newest]
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2026-10-03 21:01 Jérémy Jean
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