From: Michael Bommarito Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 16:30:35 +0000 (-0400) Subject: NFSv4/pNFS: reject zero-length r_addr in nfs4_decode_mp_ds_addr X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=41fe0f7b84f0cb822ae10ab08592996a592b2a25;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git NFSv4/pNFS: reject zero-length r_addr in nfs4_decode_mp_ds_addr nfs4_decode_mp_ds_addr() decodes the r_netid and r_addr opaques of a netaddr4 from a GETDEVICEINFO multipath-DS body, then immediately calls strrchr(buf, '.') to locate the port separator. Both decodes use xdr_stream_decode_string_dup(), and the current code checks only "nlen < 0" / "rlen < 0" before dereferencing the returned string. When the on-wire opaque has length zero, xdr_stream_decode_opaque_inline() returns 0 and xdr_stream_decode_string_dup() falls through to its "*str = NULL; return ret" tail, leaving buf NULL with a return value of 0. The "< 0" check does not catch this, and the next line is strrchr(NULL, '.'), a kernel NULL pointer dereference reachable from any pNFS-flexfile client mounted against a malicious or compromised metadata server. Reject the zero-length cases explicitly so the decoder fails with -EBADMSG (treated as a malformed GETDEVICEINFO body) instead of panicking the client. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 6b7f3cf96364 ("nfs41: pull decode_ds_addr from file layout to generic pnfs") Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker --- diff --git a/fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c b/fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c index 12632a706da88..0ff43dbcb7cd7 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c +++ b/fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c @@ -1075,14 +1075,14 @@ nfs4_decode_mp_ds_addr(struct net *net, struct xdr_stream *xdr, gfp_t gfp_flags) /* r_netid */ nlen = xdr_stream_decode_string_dup(xdr, &netid, XDR_MAX_NETOBJ, gfp_flags); - if (unlikely(nlen < 0)) + if (unlikely(nlen <= 0)) goto out_err; /* r_addr: ip/ip6addr with port in dec octets - see RFC 5665 */ /* port is ".ABC.DEF", 8 chars max */ rlen = xdr_stream_decode_string_dup(xdr, &buf, INET6_ADDRSTRLEN + IPV6_SCOPE_ID_LEN + 8, gfp_flags); - if (unlikely(rlen < 0)) + if (unlikely(rlen <= 0)) goto out_free_netid; /* replace port '.' with '-' */