FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ceph: bound num_export_targets array for mds info v2/v3" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x a3eb169ee297aa99670ba927c659990bd1e453f3
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026090336-mashing-extended-23ed@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From a3eb169ee297aa99670ba927c659990bd1e453f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Bommarito <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 14:05:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ceph: bound num_export_targets array for mds info v2/v3

ceph_mdsmap_decode() in fs/ceph/mdsmap.c reads num_export_targets from each per-mds info record and advances the decode cursor by num_export_targets * sizeof(u32) without first checking that many bytes remain. The only upper-bound check that catches a runaway cursor (*p > info_end) is gated on info_v >= 4, because info_end is left NULL for info_v 2 and 3. When the monitor sends an MDS map whose per-mds info version is 2 or 3 with an oversized num_export_targets, the cursor moves past the message front buffer and the later export-targets loop calls the unchecked ceph_decode_32() on out-of-bounds memory.

A kernel client processes CEPH_MSG_MDS_MAP from its monitor session (net/ceph/mon_client.c dispatches it; fs/ceph/super.c routes it to ceph_mdsc_handle_mdsmap(), which sets end to the front buffer bound and calls ceph_mdsmap_decode()). A malicious or compromised monitor, or an on-path attacker on an unsigned/unencrypted messenger session, can therefore drive an out-of-bounds read in the client kernel; on x86_64 with KASAN it is reported as a slab-out-of-bounds read in ceph_mdsmap_decode(). The decoded values land in the internal info->export_targets[] array, so the consequence is a kernel out-of-bounds read, not an information leak to the attacker.

Impact: a malicious or compromised Ceph monitor sending an MDS map with a per-mds info version of 2 or 3 and an oversized num_export_targets field triggers an out-of-bounds read in the CephFS client kernel.

Add a ceph_decode_need() for the export-targets array before advancing the cursor, so the bound is enforced for every info_v >= 2, not only info_v >= 4. This mirrors the count-then-need idiom already used for m_data_pg_pools later in the same function.

Compute the export-targets byte count with size_mul() and reuse that checked length when advancing the cursor, so the attacker-controlled num_export_targets multiplication fails closed on overflow rather than relying on the later kcalloc() guard.

index 450a4dc9662e..4f0626753429 100644
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/bug.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/overflow.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>

@@ -126,6 +127,7 @@ struct ceph_mdsmap *ceph_mdsmap_decode(struct ceph_mds_client *mdsc, void **p,
 	u8 mdsmap_v;
 	u16 mdsmap_ev;
 	u32 target;
+	size_t export_targets_len;
 
 	m = kzalloc_obj(*m, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!m)

@@ -224,8 +226,11 @@ struct ceph_mdsmap *ceph_mdsmap_decode(struct ceph_mds_client *mdsc, void **p,
 		*p += namelen;
 		if (info_v >= 2) {
 			ceph_decode_32_safe(p, end, num_export_targets, bad);
+			export_targets_len = size_mul(num_export_targets,
+						      sizeof(u32));
+			ceph_decode_need(p, end, export_targets_len, bad);
 			pexport_targets = *p;
-			*p += num_export_targets * sizeof(u32);
+			*p += export_targets_len;
 		} else {
 			num_export_targets = 0;
 		}

From: Michael Bommarito <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit a3eb169ee297aa99670ba927c659990bd1e453f3 ]

ceph_mdsmap_decode() in fs/ceph/mdsmap.c reads num_export_targets from each per-mds info record and advances the decode cursor by num_export_targets * sizeof(u32) without first checking that many bytes remain. The only upper-bound check that catches a runaway cursor (*p > info_end) is gated on info_v >= 4, because info_end is left NULL for info_v 2 and 3. When the monitor sends an MDS map whose per-mds info version is 2 or 3 with an oversized num_export_targets, the cursor moves past the message front buffer and the later export-targets loop calls the unchecked ceph_decode_32() on out-of-bounds memory.

A kernel client processes CEPH_MSG_MDS_MAP from its monitor session (net/ceph/mon_client.c dispatches it; fs/ceph/super.c routes it to ceph_mdsc_handle_mdsmap(), which sets end to the front buffer bound and calls ceph_mdsmap_decode()). A malicious or compromised monitor, or an on-path attacker on an unsigned/unencrypted messenger session, can therefore drive an out-of-bounds read in the client kernel; on x86_64 with KASAN it is reported as a slab-out-of-bounds read in ceph_mdsmap_decode(). The decoded values land in the internal info->export_targets[] array, so the consequence is a kernel out-of-bounds read, not an information leak to the attacker.

Impact: a malicious or compromised Ceph monitor sending an MDS map with a per-mds info version of 2 or 3 and an oversized num_export_targets field triggers an out-of-bounds read in the CephFS client kernel.

Add a ceph_decode_need() for the export-targets array before advancing the cursor, so the bound is enforced for every info_v >= 2, not only info_v >= 4. This mirrors the count-then-need idiom already used for m_data_pg_pools later in the same function.

Compute the export-targets byte count with size_mul() and reuse that checked length when advancing the cursor, so the attacker-controlled num_export_targets multiplication fails closed on overflow rather than relying on the later kcalloc() guard.

---
 fs/ceph/mdsmap.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

index 9699de85a15e2..4f05ac84b867a 100644
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/bug.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/overflow.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>

@@ -122,6 +123,7 @@ struct ceph_mdsmap *ceph_mdsmap_decode(void **p, void *end)
 	int err;
 	u8 mdsmap_v;
 	u16 mdsmap_ev;
+	size_t export_targets_len;
 
 	m = kzalloc(sizeof(*m), GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!m)

@@ -219,8 +221,11 @@ struct ceph_mdsmap *ceph_mdsmap_decode(void **p, void *end)
 		*p += namelen;
 		if (info_v >= 2) {
 			ceph_decode_32_safe(p, end, num_export_targets, bad);
+			export_targets_len = size_mul(num_export_targets,
+						      sizeof(u32));
+			ceph_decode_need(p, end, export_targets_len, bad);
 			pexport_targets = *p;
-			*p += num_export_targets * sizeof(u32);
+			*p += export_targets_len;
 		} else {
 			num_export_targets = 0;
 		}

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