From 6c3f999a9d1338c6c89a9ff4549eafe72bc2e7b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 16:13:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ethtool: cmis: require exact CDB reply length Malicious SFP module could respond with rpl_len longer than what cmis_cdb_process_reply() expected, leading to OOB writes. Malicious HW is a bit theoretical but some modules may just be buggy and/or the reads may occasionally get corrupted, so let's protect the kernel. The existing check protects from short replies. We need to protect from long ones, too. All callers that pass a non-zero rpl_exp_len cast the reply payload to a fixed-layout struct and read fields at fixed offsets, with no version negotiation or short-reply handling: - cmis_cdb_validate_password() - cmis_cdb_module_features_get() - cmis_fw_update_fw_mng_features_get() so let's assume that responses longer than expected do not have to be handled gracefully here. Add a warning message to make the debug easier in case my understanding is wrong... Note that page_data->length (argument of kmalloc) comes from last arg to ethtool_cmis_page_init() which is rpl_exp_len. Note2 that AIs also like to point out overflows in args->req.payload itself (which is a fixed-size 120 B buffer, on the stack), but callers should be reading structs defined by the standard, so protecting from requests for more data than max seem like defensive programming. Fixes: a39c84d79625 ("ethtool: cmis_cdb: Add a layer for supporting CDB commands") Reviewed-by: Danielle Ratson Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522231312.1710836-7-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- net/ethtool/cmis_cdb.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ethtool/cmis_cdb.c b/net/ethtool/cmis_cdb.c index 3670ca42dd40..f3a53a984460 100644 --- a/net/ethtool/cmis_cdb.c +++ b/net/ethtool/cmis_cdb.c @@ -513,8 +513,13 @@ static int cmis_cdb_process_reply(struct net_device *dev, } rpl = (struct ethtool_cmis_cdb_rpl *)page_data->data; - if ((args->rpl_exp_len > rpl->hdr.rpl_len + rpl_hdr_len) || - !rpl->hdr.rpl_chk_code) { + if (rpl->hdr.rpl_len != args->rpl_exp_len) { + netdev_warn(dev, "CDB reply length mismatch, expected %u got %u\n", + args->rpl_exp_len, rpl->hdr.rpl_len); + err = -EIO; + goto out; + } + if (!rpl->hdr.rpl_chk_code) { err = -EIO; goto out; }