CVE-2026-89480
nvme-tcp: reject a read that transferred too few bytes
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Sep 11, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 30, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme-tcp: reject a read that transferred too few bytes
nvme_tcp_recv_data() completes a request once the current C2HData PDU has been consumed. Nothing compares the total bytes received against the length the command asked for: struct nvme_tcp_request has no receive-side counter, queue->data_remaining is per queue, and blk_mq_end_request() completes for blk_rq_bytes(rq) unconditionally with no residual concept anywhere above.
A controller can therefore answer a 4096-byte read with 512 bytes and have it reported as a complete read; user space then gets 4096 bytes of which 3584 are whatever was already in the page. I reproduced that with a test target.
Count the bytes received and refuse to complete a successful read whose count does not match, at the two NVME_TCP_F_DATA_SUCCESS paths and in nvme_tcp_process_nvme_cqe(). The success test shifts req->status right by one, because the driver keeps the wire value there and shifts it on completion, so the check must see what the completion path will see. Only REQ_OP_READ is checked, because there the length comes from the sectors the request covers; a passthrough command is built by its submitter, which picks both command and buffer, so the kernel has nothing to compare against.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N | Linux |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b674af31d044a86bd094ba8bb8f2bb92fb49aac5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5c1bb0fb1bab2f24a081339c145870697f6d220
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa107e3a68f4af177d60f2d87679e7f67179a36c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fca3ebb63e5c82561cd9934365dcc0d068008006
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99066cf9bba175f610ceb61a35f6fc9fbc33ff65
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a02ad98798fd01f51f648c1fdd8f3c9d07195d3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/832a685efeb5d925ee7d30011d2dbe45f81447a3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fa3f73f6c8ddc5f0425b50fb2a626a782ef7d12
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