Linux kernel RDMA/siw iWARP FPDU length underflow (CVE-2026-64102)
CVE-2026-64102 Published on July 19, 2026
RDMA/siw: Reject MPA FPDU length underflow before signed receive math
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/siw: Reject MPA FPDU length underflow before signed receive math
A malicious connected siw peer can send an iWARP FPDU whose MPA length
field (c_hdr->mpa_len, 16 bit big-endian, peer-controlled) is smaller
than the fixed DDP/RDMAP header for the announced opcode. Soft-iWARP
parses the full header in siw_get_hdr() based on iwarp_pktinfo[opcode]
.hdr_len, but never compares mpa_len against that header length.
siw_tcp_rx_data() then derives
srx->fpdu_part_rem = be16_to_cpu(mpa_len) - fpdu_part_rcvd
+ MPA_HDR_SIZE;
where fpdu_part_rcvd equals iwarp_pktinfo[opcode].hdr_len at this
point. For a tagged WRITE (hdr_len 16, MPA_HDR_SIZE 2) the smallest
on-wire mpa_len of 0 yields fpdu_part_rem = -14, and any mpa_len below
hdr_len - MPA_HDR_SIZE underflows to a negative int.
The signed value then flows into siw_proc_write()/siw_proc_rresp() as
bytes = min(srx->fpdu_part_rem, srx->skb_new);
is handed to siw_check_mem() as an int len (whose interval check
addr + len > mem->va + mem->len is satisfied for a valid base when
len is negative), and reaches siw_rx_data() -> siw_rx_kva() /
siw_rx_umem() -> skb_copy_bits() as a signed copy length. The header
copy branch in skb_copy_bits() promotes that to size_t, producing a
multi-gigabyte read.
KASAN under a KUnit harness that drives the real kernel TCP receive
path -- a loopback AF_INET socketpair, the malformed FPDU written via
kernel_sendmsg, sk_data_ready firing in softirq, tcp_read_sock
dispatching to siw_tcp_rx_data -- reports:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in skb_copy_bits+0x284/0x480
Read of size 4294967295 at addr ffff888...
Call Trace:
skb_copy_bits
siw_rx_kva
siw_rx_data
siw_check_mem
siw_proc_write
siw_tcp_rx_data
__tcp_read_sock
siw_qp_llp_data_ready
tcp_data_ready
tcp_data_queue
Add the missing invariant at the earliest point where the peer header
is fully assembled. iwarp_pktinfo[*].hdr_len - MPA_HDR_SIZE is exactly
the value the siw transmitter uses as the minimum mpa_len for each
opcode (drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp.c:33), so this matches the
protocol contract. Out-of-range FPDUs terminate the connection with
TERM_ERROR_LAYER_LLP / LLP_ETYPE_MPA / LLP_ECODE_FPDU_START -- which
is RFC 5044 Section 8 error code 3 ("Marker and ULPDU Length fields
do not agree on the start of an FPDU"), the correct framing-error
class for this inconsistency.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-64102
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Affected Versions
Linux:- Version 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 and below 683f7cfbf514193d63c0efa079f3352bde84c2e0 is affected.
- Version 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 and below 4a331582011d9e8089af8aa2a61ec6b4443bb245 is affected.
- Version 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 and below 33a8b5e971e294ec2a7b74211c545e09efd8e9ac is affected.
- Version 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 and below 14553be882d9ce91749c9d64041de66e34ad8e70 is affected.
- Version 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 and below c7c0c0f4379dedec12d24dbb9dded5d2db7fd9f2 is affected.
- Version 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 and below 1012896f4225e8f801ff3c1648023845b66dfb11 is affected.
- Version 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 and below 775b4dc9618a99a1fa48b57554041a5dc17e1336 is affected.
- Version 8b6a361b8c482f22ac99c3273285ff16b23fba91 and below 0ce1bc9e46ecabe84772bb561e373c0d9876d6f2 is affected.
- Version 5.3 is affected.
- Before 5.3 is unaffected.
- Version 5.10.258, <= 5.10.* is unaffected.
- Version 5.15.209, <= 5.15.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.1.175, <= 6.1.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.6.142, <= 6.6.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.12.92, <= 6.12.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.18.34, <= 6.18.* is unaffected.
- Version 7.0.11, <= 7.0.* is unaffected.
- Version 7.1, <= * is unaffected.