Hi Christoph,
2017-01-04 6:25 GMT+01:00 Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>:
> Most users of BLOCK_PC requests allocate the sense buffer on the stack,
> so to avoid DMA to the stack copy them to a field in the heap allocated
> virtblk_req structure. Without that any attempt at SCSI passthrough I/O,
> including the SG_IO ioctl from userspace will crash the kernel. Note that
> this includes running tools like hdparm even when the host does not have
> SCSI passthrough enabled.
This sounds scary.
Could you share how to reproduce it, this should go into stable if
it's the case.
Thanks,
Jinpu
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
> ---
> drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> index 5545a67..3c3b8f6 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ struct virtblk_req {
> struct virtio_blk_outhdr out_hdr;
> struct virtio_scsi_inhdr in_hdr;
> u8 status;
> + u8 sense[SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE];
> struct scatterlist sg[];
> };
>
> @@ -102,7 +103,8 @@ static int __virtblk_add_req(struct virtqueue *vq,
> }
>
> if (type == cpu_to_virtio32(vq->vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_T_SCSI_CMD)) {
> - sg_init_one(&sense, vbr->req->sense, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE);
> + memcpy(vbr->sense, vbr->req->sense, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE);
> + sg_init_one(&sense, vbr->sense, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE);
> sgs[num_out + num_in++] = &sense;
> sg_init_one(&inhdr, &vbr->in_hdr, sizeof(vbr->in_hdr));
> sgs[num_out + num_in++] = &inhdr;
> --
> 2.1.4
>
