CVE-2026-63888

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: target: iscsi: Fix CRC overread and double-free in iscsithandletext_cmd()

Two latent bugs in the Text-phase handler, both present since the original LIO integration in commit e48354ce078c ("iscsi-target: Add iSCSI fabric support for target v4.1"):

1) DataDigest CRC buffer overread (4 bytes past text_in).

textin is kzalloc()'d at ALIGN(payloadlength, 4). rxsize is then incremented by ISCSICRCLEN to make room for the received DataDigest in the iovec, but the same (now-bumped) rxsize is passed as the buffer length to iscsitcrcbuf():

   if (conn->conn_ops->DataDigest) {
           ...
           rx_size += ISCSI_CRC_LEN;
   }
   ...
   if (conn->conn_ops->DataDigest) {
           data_crc = iscsit_crc_buf(text_in, rx_size, 0, NULL);

iscsitcrcbuf() walks rxsize bytes of textin with crc32c(), so when DataDigest is negotiated it reads 4 bytes past the end of the text_in allocation. KASAN reproduces this directly on the unpatched mainline tree as slab-out-of-bounds in crc32c() called from the Text PDU path. The OOB bytes feed crc32c() and are then compared against the initiator-supplied checksum, so the value does not flow back to the attacker, but the kernel does read past the buffer on every Text PDU with DataDigest=CRC32C.

Fix by passing the actual padded payload length (ALIGN(payload_length, 4)) that was used for the kzalloc().

2) Stale cmd->textinptr re-free (double-free) on ERL>0 bad DataDigest drop.

On DataDigest mismatch with ErrorRecoveryLevel > 0 the handler silently drops the PDU and lets the initiator plug the CmdSN gap:

           kfree(text_in);
           return 0;

cmd->textinptr still points at the freed buffer. The next Text Request on the same ITT re-enters iscsitsetuptext_cmd(), which unconditionally does

   kfree(cmd->text_in_ptr);
   cmd->text_in_ptr = NULL;

freeing the same pointer a second time. Session teardown via iscsitreleasecmd() has the same shape and hits the same double-free if the connection is dropped before a second Text Request arrives.

On an unmodified mainline tree the bug-1 CRC overread fires first on the initial valid Text Request and perturbs the subsequent state, so #4 was isolated by building a kernel with only the bug-1 hunk of this patch applied plus temporary printk() observability around the three relevant kfree() sites. The observability prints are not part of this patch. On that build, a three-PDU Text Request sequence after login produces two back-to-back splats:

   BUG: KASAN: double-free in iscsit_setup_text_cmd+0x??
   BUG: KASAN: double-free in iscsit_release_cmd+0x??

showing the same pointer freed in the ERL>0 drop path and again in iscsitsetuptextcmd() (next Text Request on the same ITT) and once more in iscsitreleasecmd() (session teardown). On distro kernels with CONFIGSLABFREELISTHARDENED=y (default) the double-free becomes a remote kernel BUG(); on non-hardened kernels it corrupts the slab freelist.

Fix by clearing cmd->textinptr after the kfree() in the ERL>0 drop path. With both hunks applied #4 is directly observable on the stock tree without observability printks; fixing bug-1 alone would mask #4 less, not more, so the hunks are submitted together.

Both fixes are one-liners. The Text PDU state machine is unchanged and the wire protocol is unaffected.