[PATCH] RDMA/siw: Fix the sendmsg byte count in siw_tcp_sendpages

From: Pedro Falcato
Date: Wed Jul 23 2025 - 06:42:06 EST


Ever since commit c2ff29e99a76 ("siw: Inline do_tcp_sendpages()"),
we have been doing this:

static int siw_tcp_sendpages(struct socket *s, struct page **page, int offset,
size_t size)
[...]
/* Calculate the number of bytes we need to push, for this page
* specifically */
size_t bytes = min_t(size_t, PAGE_SIZE - offset, size);
/* If we can't splice it, then copy it in, as normal */
if (!sendpage_ok(page[i]))
msg.msg_flags &= ~MSG_SPLICE_PAGES;
/* Set the bvec pointing to the page, with len $bytes */
bvec_set_page(&bvec, page[i], bytes, offset);
/* Set the iter to $size, aka the size of the whole sendpages (!!!) */
iov_iter_bvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, &bvec, 1, size);
try_page_again:
lock_sock(sk);
/* Sendmsg with $size size (!!!) */
rv = tcp_sendmsg_locked(sk, &msg, size);

This means we've been sending oversized iov_iters and tcp_sendmsg calls
for a while. This has a been a benign bug because sendpage_ok() always
returned true. With the recent slab allocator changes being slowly
introduced into next (that disallow sendpage on large kmalloc
allocations), we have recently hit out-of-bounds crashes, due to slight
differences in iov_iter behavior between the MSG_SPLICE_PAGES and
"regular" copy paths:

(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
skb_splice_from_iter
iov_iter_extract_pages
iov_iter_extract_bvec_pages
uses i->nr_segs to correctly stop in its tracks before OoB'ing everywhere
skb_splice_from_iter gets a "short" read

(!MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
skb_copy_to_page_nocache copy=iov_iter_count
[...]
copy_from_iter
/* this doesn't help */
if (unlikely(iter->count < len))
len = iter->count;
iterate_bvec
... and we run off the bvecs

Fix this by properly setting the iov_iter's byte count, plus sending the
correct byte count to tcp_sendmsg_locked.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: c2ff29e99a76 ("siw: Inline do_tcp_sendpages()")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202507220801.50a7210-lkp@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c
index 3a08f57d2211..9576a2b766c4 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c
@@ -340,11 +340,11 @@ static int siw_tcp_sendpages(struct socket *s, struct page **page, int offset,
if (!sendpage_ok(page[i]))
msg.msg_flags &= ~MSG_SPLICE_PAGES;
bvec_set_page(&bvec, page[i], bytes, offset);
- iov_iter_bvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, &bvec, 1, size);
+ iov_iter_bvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, &bvec, 1, bytes);

try_page_again:
lock_sock(sk);
- rv = tcp_sendmsg_locked(sk, &msg, size);
+ rv = tcp_sendmsg_locked(sk, &msg, bytes);
release_sock(sk);

if (rv > 0) {
--
2.50.1