[PATCH 4/4] nvme: clamp FDP placement handle count to the buffer size

Nilay Shroff nilay at linux.ibm.com
Thu Jul 30 05:08:17 PDT 2026


On 7/30/26 10:01 AM, Guixin Liu wrote:
> nvme_query_fdp_info() allocates the RUH status buffer for at most
> S8_MAX - 1 descriptors and caps the io-mgmt-receive transfer to that
> size. head->nr_plids, however, is taken verbatim from the device-supplied
> nruhsd field, which can be up to 65535. If a non-conformant or malicious
> device reports more descriptors than the buffer holds, the copy loop
> reads past the end of the ruhs buffer (heap out-of-bounds read).
> 
> Clamp nr_plids to the number of descriptors the buffer can actually hold.
> 
> Fixes: 30b5f20bb2dd ("nvme: register fdp parameters with the block layer")
> Signed-off-by: Guixin Liu<kanie at linux.alibaba.com>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay at linux.ibm.com>




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