# CVE-2026-89480: nvme-tcp: reject a read that transferred too few bytes

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.15.221, 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.109, 6.18.50, and 1 more
- Published: 2026-09-11 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.0
- Kernel (Linux): from 5.0.0, fixed in 5.15.221; from 5.16.0, fixed in 6.1.188; from 6.2.0, fixed in 6.6.157; from 6.7.0, fixed in 6.12.109; from 6.13.0, fixed in 6.18.50; from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.2.4

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (5.15.221, 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.109, 6.18.50) per the references below.
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## Related

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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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