CVE-2026-89530

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

svcrdma: Reject inline replies that overflow the pull-up buffer

An RPC-over-RDMA client can request a reply, such as an NFS READ payload, without providing a Write list or a Reply chunk to carry it. When such a reply needs more scatter/gather entries than the devices Send Queue supports, svc_rdma_pull_up_needed() selects pull-up and svc_rdma_pull_up_reply_msg() linearizes the whole reply into sctxt->sc_xprt_buf. That buffer is only sc_max_req_size bytes, while the reply on this path is bounded only by the clients request, so svc_rdma_xb_linearize() copies past the end of the buffer and corrupts adjacent slab memory. The oversized length is then stored in sc_sges[0].length and posted, so the device also reads beyond the mapped region.

The SGE-exhaustion branch is the only pull-up path that can exceed the buffer: the threshold branch pulls up only replies smaller than RPCRDMA_PULLUP_THRESH, and replies that fit the devices SGE budget are sent directly without linearization. Make svc_rdma_pull_up_needed() report -E2BIG when the reply it would pull up cannot fit sc_max_req_size, and fail the request with ERR_CHUNK as RFC 8166 Section 4.5.3 directs rather than dropping the connection.

The helper no longer answers a simple yes/no question: it now reports pull-up, no pull-up, or -E2BIG for a reply too large to linearize. Rename svc_rdma_pull_up_needed() to svc_rdma_check_pull_up() so its name no longer implies a boolean predicate.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fbe20dfe74b783d255bf389a6ea77aa25dc7860
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1949dd1576f7a8aa161b1330c6125df9d53046d5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ec60eb51fae37cd3d334ff26e4a7d6fb21ff7cf
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcd91b9957462d398792201c239dffaeff1cc8b2