[Bug Report] NVMe-oF/TCP - Slab OOB Read in `nvmet_ctrl_find_get`

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Wed Nov 8 20:52:22 PST 2023


On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 10:09:27PM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> I specifically didn't send this patch when I wrote it initially, coz we are
> modifying connect data and yes it will work just fine functionally but
> in principal we should not touch connect data after nvmet_copy_from_sgl()
> call even for the sake of debug prints or string comparison since it's
> a data that we've received from host and should be in read-only mode.
> 
> please correct me if connect data should not be treated as read-only...

Why would it?  It's purely in-memory and any data transfer is copied
into it.



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