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CRITICAL Introduced in 2.6.16

ocfs2 MigrateRequest OOB

CVE-2026-89495

CVSS 9.8 / 10.0 NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

KernelScan AI8.0HIGH

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: bound namelen in dlm_migrate_request_handler Patch series "ocfs2/dlm: bound peer-controlled lengths in the o2dlm". The o2dlm receive handlers trust u8 length and count fields from the wire without bounding them, so a node in a DLM domain can corrupt or panic any other node with a malformed message. Three defects: - dlm_migrate_request_handler() passes migrate->namelen unchecked to dlm_init_mle(), which memcpy()s it into the 32-byte mname[] of an o2dlm_mle slab object: a heap out-of-bounds write of up to ~215 attacker-controlled bytes. - dlm_mig_lockres_handler() passes mres->lockname_len unchecked to dlm_init_lockres(), which memcpy()s it into the 32-byte o2dlm_lockname slab object: a heap out-of-bounds write of up to ~223 bytes. - the same handler trusts mres->num_locks without checking that the message is large enough to hold that many entries, so dlm_process_recovery_data() walks mres->ml[] past the kmalloc(data_len) copy and trips a BUG_ON (an out-of-bounds read ending in a panic). The other o2dlm receive handlers already reject an oversized name; the migration and recovery handlers have omitted it since the DLM was added (see the Fixes tags). Patch 1 bounds namelen; patch 2 validates lockname_len, num_locks, and the payload size. Conforming recovery and migration traffic is unaffected. o2net authenticates peers only by the DLM domain key, so any node that has joined the domain -- including a compromised or malicious member -- can send these messages. There is no local trigger; the attacker must already be a member of the cluster. Each sink was confirmed under KASAN with an out-of-tree module mirroring it exactly -- a kmem_cache/kmalloc of the real destination size, then the same unclamped memcpy/loop: slab-out-of-bounds Write for the two writes, Read for the recovery walk, and a panic. A userspace AddressSanitizer build faults identically under -m32 and -m64. Scrubbed logs are available on request. I reported this privately to security@kernel.org and the ocfs2 maintainers on 2026-06-20; with no response after the standard embargo period I am posting the fix publicly. I have no embargo requirement. This patch (of 2): A node receiving a DLM_MIGRATE_REQUEST message trusts the peer-supplied name length (migrate->namelen) without bounding it. dlm_init_mle() then copies that many bytes into the fixed DLM_LOCKID_NAME_MAX-byte mname[] array of an o2dlm_mle slab object, so a malformed message from a cluster peer overflows the slab object by up to ~215 bytes: a heap out-of-bounds write of attacker-controlled data, reachable by any node in the domain. Reject an oversized name, the way dlm_master_request_handler() and the other o2dlm receive handlers already do; the migration handler omits the check entirely. Conforming messages are unaffected.

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Engine v0.6.0

Risk summary

A malicious or compromised node in an OCFS2/DLM cluster can send a malformed migration request that overflows a fixed-size heap buffer by up to ~215 bytes, corrupting kernel heap memory on the receiving node. This can lead to kernel panic, information disclosure, or arbitrary code execution in the kernel. Any system participating in an OCFS2 cluster with untrusted or potentially compromised peer nodes is at risk.

Affectedfs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c (ocfs2 dlm)

Vulnerability analysis

The cluster lock manager's migration message handler accepts a peer-supplied name length field without checking it against the maximum allowed size, then uses that length to copy data into a fixed-size buffer on the heap. A malicious or compromised cluster node can send a migration request with an oversized name length, causing the copy to write up to ~215 bytes past the end of the allocated heap object — a heap out-of-bounds write of attacker-controlled data. The fix adds a bounds check that rejects any name length exceeding the maximum, matching the validation already present in other cluster lock manager message handlers. The attack is reachable only from a node that has joined the same DLM domain (which requires the domain key), so the attacker must already be a cluster member; there is no local trigger and no path from an unprivileged local process.

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BranchIntroducedFixed inPatch commit
6.12.6.166.1.188006c96ea488e
6.62.6.166.6.15724989909d341
6.122.6.166.12.109f8658ee3327f
7.22.6.167.2.42487bea20983
5.152.6.165.15.221aabc5d8388e6
6.182.6.166.18.50de10cd3b062a
5.102.6.165.10.270e1288865b8ce
mainline2.6.167.3-rc1ea5b5609305a