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jira VULN-196211
cve CVE-2026-64582
commit-author Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
commit 35744ab3d03c5fca8c1752f53fc8fc674e14c561
upstream-diff |

rxe_mmap() removes a rxe_mmap_info struct from the pending_mmaps list and releases pending_lock while the struct's kref is still at 1:

   list_del_init(&ip->pending_mmaps);
   spin_unlock_bh(&rxe->pending_lock);   /* ref == 1, no lock held */
   ret = remap_vmalloc_range(vma, ip->obj, 0);  /* walks PTEs */
   [...]
   rxe_vma_open(vma);                    /* kref_get, ref → 2 */
   remap_vmalloc_range_partial() walks PTEs without any lock.

A concurrent DESTROY_CQ ioctl on another CPU calls:

    kref_put(&q->ip->ref, rxe_mmap_release)   /* ref 1→0 */
    vfree(ip->obj)   /* clears vmalloc PTEs mid-walk */
    kfree(ip)        /* frees rxe_mmap_info */

This yields:

   1. Kernel crash, vmalloc_to_page() returns NULL when vfree wins the per-PTE race -> vm_insert_page(NULL) → GPF in validate_page_before_insert

   2. Page UAF, vmalloc_to_page() reads a stale PTE before vfree clears it. User VMA holds a PTE to a free'd page which might eventually get reallocated later by vmalloc which allows the attacker to get a clean page-level UAF.

   It is worth noting that even though a page-level UAF is possible given
   the strong primitive, it is statistically very difficult to achieve
   given the very short time window (after the last insert_page and before
   the kref_get).

The call trace are as below:

  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
  CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 413 Comm: poc Not tainted 7.0.0-rc5-dirty #28 PREEMPT(lazy)
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:validate_page_before_insert+0x32/0x300
  Code: e5 41 57 41 56 49 89 fe 41 55 41 54 53 48 89 f3 e8 93 b5 a3 ff 48 8d 7b 08 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 7b 02 00 00 4c 8b 63 08 31 ff 4d 89 e5 41 83 e5
  RSP: 0018:ffff88811b15f2f0 EFLAGS: 00000202
  RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000008
  RBP: ffff88811b15f318 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8881181eee00
  R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8881181eee00 R15: ffff8881181eee20
  FS:  00007b1e000f76c0(0000) GS:ffff8884268e0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00007b1e00a24ac0 CR3: 0000000116eb3000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   insert_page+0x8f/0x190
   ? __pfx_insert_page+0x10/0x10
   ? kasan_save_alloc_info+0x38/0x60
   vm_insert_page+0x2e7/0x400
   remap_vmalloc_range_partial+0x212/0x3e0
   remap_vmalloc_range+0x6e/0xb0
   ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30
   rxe_mmap+0x2e9/0x5d0
   ib_uverbs_mmap+0x1ad/0x2c0
   __mmap_region+0x12c2/0x2ad0
   ? __pfx___mmap_region+0x10/0x10
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_switch+0x58/0xb0
   ? mas_prev_slot+0x360/0x39c0
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_switch+0x58/0xb0
   ? mas_next_slot+0x1e5b/0x2f40
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_cmp8+0x18/0x30
   ? unmapped_area_topdown+0x4dd/0x610
   ? kfree+0x1b1/0x440
   ? free_cpumask_var+0x16/0x30
   ? __kasan_slab_free+0x7d/0xa0
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_cmp8+0x18/0x30
   mmap_region+0x2e6/0x3c0
   do_mmap+0xa3e/0x12a0
   ? __pfx_do_mmap+0x10/0x10
   ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30
   ? down_write_killable+0xba/0x160
   ? __pfx_down_write_killable+0x10/0x10
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_cmp4+0x16/0x30
   vm_mmap_pgoff+0x2d4/0x4a0
   ? __pfx_vm_mmap_pgoff+0x10/0x10
   ? fget+0x1bf/0x270
   ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x40c/0x690
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp4+0x16/0x30
   ? __pfx_ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x10/0x10
   ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30
   ? _raw_spin_trylock+0xbb/0x130
   ? __pfx__raw_spin_trylock+0x10/0x10
   __x64_sys_mmap+0x135/0x1e0
   x64_sys_call+0x1c14/0x2790
   do_syscall_64+0xd2/0x1050
   ? rcu_core+0x352/0x7d0
   ? rcu_core_si+0xe/0x20
   ? handle_softirqs+0x1aa/0x650
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_cmp4+0x16/0x30
   ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0xe1/0x160
   ? irqentry_exit+0xb1/0x670
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/20260515002537.6209-1-yanjun.zhu@linux.dev
Reported-and-tested-by: nasm <n4sm@protonmail.com>
	Suggested-by: nasm <n4sm@protonmail.com>
Fixes: 8700e3e7c485 ("Soft RoCE driver")
	Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
	Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
(cherry picked from commit 35744ab3d03c5fca8c1752f53fc8fc674e14c561)

Kselftests


[jkoolstra@localhost kselftest-logs]$ grep '^ok ' selftest-4.18.0-ciqlts8_6-dfcca6afde7c+-1.log | wc -l && grep '^ok ' selftest-4.18.0-jkoolstra_ciqlts8_6-7fda92912f61+-1.log | wc -l
146
148
[jkoolstra@localhost kselftest-logs]$ grep '^not ok ' selftest-4.18.0-ciqlts8_6-dfcca6afde7c+-1.log | wc -l && grep '^not ok ' selftest-4.18.0-jkoolstra_ciqlts8_6-7fda92912f61+-1.log | wc -l
101
99

before.log
after.log

jira VULN-196211
cve CVE-2026-64582
commit-author Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
commit 35744ab
upstream-diff |

rxe_mmap() removes a rxe_mmap_info struct from the pending_mmaps list
and releases pending_lock while the struct's kref is still at 1:

   list_del_init(&ip->pending_mmaps);
   spin_unlock_bh(&rxe->pending_lock);   /* ref == 1, no lock held */
   ret = remap_vmalloc_range(vma, ip->obj, 0);  /* walks PTEs */
   [...]
   rxe_vma_open(vma);                    /* kref_get, ref → 2 */
   remap_vmalloc_range_partial() walks PTEs without any lock.

A concurrent DESTROY_CQ ioctl on another CPU calls:

    kref_put(&q->ip->ref, rxe_mmap_release)   /* ref 1→0 */
    vfree(ip->obj)   /* clears vmalloc PTEs mid-walk */
    kfree(ip)        /* frees rxe_mmap_info */

This yields:

   1. Kernel crash, vmalloc_to_page() returns NULL when vfree wins the
   per-PTE race -> vm_insert_page(NULL) → GPF in validate_page_before_insert

   2. Page UAF, vmalloc_to_page() reads a stale PTE before vfree clears
   it. User VMA holds a PTE to a free'd page which might eventually get
   reallocated later by vmalloc which allows the attacker to get a clean
   page-level UAF.

   It is worth noting that even though a page-level UAF is possible given
   the strong primitive, it is statistically very difficult to achieve
   given the very short time window (after the last insert_page and before
   the kref_get).

The call trace are as below:

  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
  CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 413 Comm: poc Not tainted 7.0.0-rc5-dirty #28 PREEMPT(lazy)
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:validate_page_before_insert+0x32/0x300
  Code: e5 41 57 41 56 49 89 fe 41 55 41 54 53 48 89 f3 e8 93 b5 a3 ff 48 8d 7b 08 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 7b 02 00 00 4c 8b 63 08 31 ff 4d 89 e5 41 83 e5
  RSP: 0018:ffff88811b15f2f0 EFLAGS: 00000202
  RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000008
  RBP: ffff88811b15f318 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8881181eee00
  R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8881181eee00 R15: ffff8881181eee20
  FS:  00007b1e000f76c0(0000) GS:ffff8884268e0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00007b1e00a24ac0 CR3: 0000000116eb3000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   insert_page+0x8f/0x190
   ? __pfx_insert_page+0x10/0x10
   ? kasan_save_alloc_info+0x38/0x60
   vm_insert_page+0x2e7/0x400
   remap_vmalloc_range_partial+0x212/0x3e0
   remap_vmalloc_range+0x6e/0xb0
   ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30
   rxe_mmap+0x2e9/0x5d0
   ib_uverbs_mmap+0x1ad/0x2c0
   __mmap_region+0x12c2/0x2ad0
   ? __pfx___mmap_region+0x10/0x10
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_switch+0x58/0xb0
   ? mas_prev_slot+0x360/0x39c0
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_switch+0x58/0xb0
   ? mas_next_slot+0x1e5b/0x2f40
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_cmp8+0x18/0x30
   ? unmapped_area_topdown+0x4dd/0x610
   ? kfree+0x1b1/0x440
   ? free_cpumask_var+0x16/0x30
   ? __kasan_slab_free+0x7d/0xa0
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_cmp8+0x18/0x30
   mmap_region+0x2e6/0x3c0
   do_mmap+0xa3e/0x12a0
   ? __pfx_do_mmap+0x10/0x10
   ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30
   ? down_write_killable+0xba/0x160
   ? __pfx_down_write_killable+0x10/0x10
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_cmp4+0x16/0x30
   vm_mmap_pgoff+0x2d4/0x4a0
   ? __pfx_vm_mmap_pgoff+0x10/0x10
   ? fget+0x1bf/0x270
   ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x40c/0x690
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp4+0x16/0x30
   ? __pfx_ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x10/0x10
   ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30
   ? _raw_spin_trylock+0xbb/0x130
   ? __pfx__raw_spin_trylock+0x10/0x10
   __x64_sys_mmap+0x135/0x1e0
   x64_sys_call+0x1c14/0x2790
   do_syscall_64+0xd2/0x1050
   ? rcu_core+0x352/0x7d0
   ? rcu_core_si+0xe/0x20
   ? handle_softirqs+0x1aa/0x650
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_cmp4+0x16/0x30
   ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0xe1/0x160
   ? irqentry_exit+0xb1/0x670
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/20260515002537.6209-1-yanjun.zhu@linux.dev
Reported-and-tested-by: nasm <n4sm@protonmail.com>
	Suggested-by: nasm <n4sm@protonmail.com>
Fixes: 8700e3e ("Soft RoCE driver")
	Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
	Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
(cherry picked from commit 35744ab)
Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
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It seems like fewer tests ran compared to an example I was looking at: #173 . But that's over a year old. I don't have any build output, it seems that the kernel-build.sh script does not generate it and you have to tee it manually, which I didn't do.

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🤖 Validation Checks In Progress Workflow run: https://github.com/ctrliq/kernel-src-tree/actions/runs/40899894263

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# Subject Backport Upstream
1 RDMA/rxe: Fix a use-after-free problem in rxe_mmap 9c0246dd2f74 35744ab3d03c

Checked PR revision 9c0246dd2f74 against base dfcca6afde7c.

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1 commit(s) with issues found:

Commit 9c0246dd2f74

Summary: RDMA/rxe: Fix a use-after-free problem in rxe_mmap

❌ Errors:

  • VULN-196211: Status is 'To Do', expected 'In Progress'

⚠️ Warnings:

  • VULN-196211: No time logged - please log time manually

Summary: Checked 1 commit(s) total.

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❌ Validation checks completed with issues View full results: https://github.com/ctrliq/kernel-src-tree/actions/runs/40899894263

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@LATENTBOUNCE change itself looks good. A few minor things:

The commit message has 'upstream-diff |' but then doesn't say anything about what is different. In this case I think the change contents are the same, all you had was a minor conflict when applying because this kernel has pr_err instead of rxe_dbg_dev. You'll probably see some examples of that in the history of this branch.

Put some time (it doesn't really matter how much, 30min or whatever) on the VULN ticket so it can get autoclosed after we publich CSAF.

Don't worry about the kselftest numbers you got too much. Same with the build log. I think the idea of going through the manual process was just to get a feel for it. Our automated CI process is running on your branch and will have build, boot, kselftest, and ltp results: https://github.com/ctrliq/kernel-src-tree/actions/runs/40896060232

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