This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nvme: sanitize metadata bounce buffer for reads to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: nvme-sanitize-metadata-bounce-buffer-for-reads.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2b32c76e2b0154b98b9322ae7546b8156cd703e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:12:47 -0700 Subject: nvme: sanitize metadata bounce buffer for reads From: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 2b32c76e2b0154b98b9322ae7546b8156cd703e6 upstream. User can request more metadata bytes than the device will write. Ensure kernel buffer is initialized so we're not leaking unsanitized memory on the copy-out. Fixes: 0b7f1f26f95a51a ("nvme: use the block layer for userspace passthrough metadata") Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/nvme/host/ioctl.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/nvme/host/ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/ioctl.c @@ -32,9 +32,13 @@ static void *nvme_add_user_metadata(stru if (!buf) goto out; - ret = -EFAULT; - if ((req_op(req) == REQ_OP_DRV_OUT) && copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, len)) - goto out_free_meta; + if (req_op(req) == REQ_OP_DRV_OUT) { + ret = -EFAULT; + if (copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, len)) + goto out_free_meta; + } else { + memset(buf, 0, len); + } bip = bio_integrity_alloc(bio, GFP_KERNEL, 1); if (IS_ERR(bip)) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/nvme-sanitize-metadata-bounce-buffer-for-reads.patch queue-6.1/nvmet-auth-complete-a-request-only-after-freeing-the-dhchap-pointers.patch queue-6.1/nvme-rdma-do-not-try-to-stop-unallocated-queues.patch queue-6.1/nvmet-tcp-fix-a-possible-uaf-in-queue-intialization-setup.patch queue-6.1/nvme-pci-add-bogus_nid-for-intel-0a54-device.patch