Re: [PATCH v2] RDMA/siw: Fix the sendmsg byte count in siw_tcp_sendpages

From: Pedro Falcato
Date: Wed Jul 30 2025 - 05:26:31 EST


On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 08:53:02PM +0200, Bernard Metzler wrote:
> On 29.07.2025 14:03, Pedro Falcato wrote:
> > 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
> > Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > v2:
> > - Add David Howells's Rb on the original patch
> > - Remove the offset increment, since it's dead code
> >
> > drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c | 5 ++---
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c
> > index 3a08f57d2211..f7dd32c6e5ba 100644
> > --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c
> > @@ -340,18 +340,17 @@ 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) {
> > size -= rv;
> > sent += rv;
> > if (rv != bytes) {
> > - offset += rv;
> > bytes -= rv;
> > goto try_page_again;
> > }
>
> Acked-by: Bernard Metzler <bernard.metzler@xxxxxxxxx>


Thanks!

Do you want to take the fix through your tree? Otherwise I suspect Vlastimil
could simply take it (and possibly resubmit the SLAB PR, which hasn't been
merged yet).

--
Pedro