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FKIE_CVE-2026-80788

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-04 16:18 - Updated: 2026-09-07 15:17
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet-tcp: Do not WARN on remotely-controlled oversized SGL allocations When fuzzing the nvme target code, I tripped a kernel warning in nvmet_tcp_map_data() because the length passed into the allocator is controlled by the remote initiator. A remote initiator that sends a command with an SGL claiming a huge number, can create a scatterlist and iovec allocation of over 1 million entries, which causes the backing kmalloc call to exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER and then the page allocator will trip on a WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP() message: WARNING: mm/page_alloc.c:5280 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof Workqueue: nvmet_tcp_wq nvmet_tcp_io_work ... sgl_alloc_order nvmet_tcp_map_data nvmet_tcp_try_recv_pdu As it's never good to trip a kernel warning remotely due to many systems having panic-on-warn enabled, let's silence it by just add GFP_NOWARN to the allocation flags.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/737a3b535247226f6e1a7988fd9d6e63e7d6fc71
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b6a54d4e7b0da423c2b53ed293fd36b16c0b19e
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fd6da0f28932442b51658bac4ff55565ca9b377
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86cc450022473c4a29b43a09f3ec22a9ef566dac
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d01f0d0e96485e39ad89b859ef85e1dc3020465
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b770e40bc00381e5ebf53653de5776773415be3
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c95f7e66c62ee6c6abedcf1c04311f430ff5833
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c509f20be1cabda3087810bb2d658d66b3f31f35
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7077e6c45423dd2bb7de7b5fc4b018a8e6c4741
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      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvmet-tcp: Do not WARN on remotely-controlled oversized SGL allocations\n\nWhen fuzzing the nvme target code, I tripped a kernel warning in\nnvmet_tcp_map_data() because the length passed into the allocator is\ncontrolled by the remote initiator.\n\nA remote initiator that sends a command with an SGL claiming a huge\nnumber, can create a scatterlist and iovec allocation of over 1 million\nentries, which causes the backing kmalloc call to exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER\nand then the page allocator will trip on a WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP() message:\n\n  WARNING: mm/page_alloc.c:5280 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof\n  Workqueue: nvmet_tcp_wq nvmet_tcp_io_work\n  ...\n  sgl_alloc_order\n  nvmet_tcp_map_data\n  nvmet_tcp_try_recv_pdu\n\nAs it\u0027s never good to trip a kernel warning remotely due to many systems\nhaving panic-on-warn enabled, let\u0027s silence it by just add GFP_NOWARN to\nthe allocation flags."
    }
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  "id": "CVE-2026-80788",
  "lastModified": "2026-09-07T15:17:32.710",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2026-09-04T16:18:04.857",
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