Don't make any assumptions on the sg_io_hdr_t::dxfer_direction or the
sg_io_hdr_t::dxferp in order to determine if it is a valid request. The
only way we can check for bad requests is by checking if the length exceeds
256M.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumsh...@suse.de>
Fixes: 28676d869bbb (scsi: sg: check for valid direction before starting the
request)
Reported-by: Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@math.uh.edu>
Tested-by: Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@math.uh.edu>
Suggested-by: Doug Gilbert <dgilb...@interlog.com>
Cc: Doug Gilbert <dgilb...@interlog.com>
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
---
drivers/scsi/sg.c | 31 +------------------------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 30 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sg.c b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
index 4fe606b000b4..d7ff71e0c85c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
@@ -751,35 +751,6 @@ sg_new_write(Sg_fd *sfp, struct file *file, const char
__user *buf,
return count;
}
-static bool sg_is_valid_dxfer(sg_io_hdr_t *hp)
-{
- switch (hp->dxfer_direction) {
- case SG_DXFER_NONE:
- if (hp->dxferp || hp->dxfer_len > 0)
- return false;
- return true;
- case SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV:
- /*
- * for SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV we always set dxfer_len to > 0. dxferp
- * can either be NULL or != NULL so there's no point in checking
- * it either. So just return true.
- */
- return true;
- case SG_DXFER_TO_DEV:
- case SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV:
- if (!hp->dxferp || hp->dxfer_len == 0)
- return false;
- return true;
- case SG_DXFER_UNKNOWN:
- if ((!hp->dxferp && hp->dxfer_len) ||
- (hp->dxferp && hp->dxfer_len == 0))
- return false;
- return true;
- default:
- return false;
- }
-}
-
static int
sg_common_write(Sg_fd * sfp, Sg_request * srp,
unsigned char *cmnd, int timeout, int blocking)
@@ -800,7 +771,7 @@ sg_common_write(Sg_fd * sfp, Sg_request * srp,
"sg_common_write: scsi opcode=0x%02x, cmd_size=%d\n",
(int) cmnd[0], (int) hp->cmd_len));
- if (!sg_is_valid_dxfer(hp))
+ if (hp->dxfer_len >= SZ_256M)
return -EINVAL;
k = sg_start_req(srp, cmnd);
--
2.12.3
