>>>>> "Doug" == Douglas Gilbert <dgilb...@interlog.com> writes:

Doug> This patch is in response to this report:
Doug> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg93456.html

Doug> One of the strange things that the original sg driver did was let
Doug> the user provide both a data-out buffer (it followed the
Doug> sg_header+cdb) _and_ specify a reply length greater than
Doug> zero. What happened was that the user data-out buffer was copied
Doug> into some kernel buffers and then the mid level was told a read
Doug> type operation would take place with the data from the device
Doug> overwriting the same kernel buffers. The user would then read
Doug> those kernel buffers back into the user space.

Doug> From what I can tell, the above action was broken by a change in
Doug> 2008 and syzkaller found that out recently.

Doug>    ChangeLog: make sure that a user space pointer is passed
Doug> through when data follows the sg_header structure and command.
Doug> Fix the abnormal case when a non-zero reply_len is also given.

Somebody please review.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering
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