[PATCH] ata: libata-scsi: bound the ATA passthru sense descriptor writes
From: Matthias Goergens
Date: Tue Sep 22 2026 - 14:27:09 EST
When an ATA PASS-THROUGH command to an ATAPI device fails, the sense
buffer holds the device's REQUEST SENSE reply, and
ata_scsi_set_passthru_sense_fields() trusts its additional length
byte, sb[7], when adding the ATA Status Return descriptor. A faulty
or malicious device can use that to make the kernel read and write
past the 96-byte buffer in three ways:
- scsi_sense_desc_find() is passed sb[7] + 8 as the buffer length, so
its clamp against sb[7] does nothing and the walk runs off the end.
- A type-9 descriptor found near the end is filled in unchecked.
- A new descriptor at sb[8 + len] needs len + 22 bytes, not len + 14,
so len 75..82 writes up to 8 bytes past the end.
Reproduced with KASAN under qemu, with the emulated ATAPI REQUEST SENSE
reply patched:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in scsi_sense_desc_find+0x1a5/0x210
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ata_scsi_qc_complete+0x1a15/0x1a50
Both are gone with this patch, and a valid descriptor is still filled
in.
Fixes: 97981926224a ("ata: libata-scsi: Do not overwrite valid sense data when CK_COND=1")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Matthias Goergens <matthias.goergens@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
index 7e22bbc38238..40e56ff52f09 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
@@ -261,12 +261,18 @@ static void ata_scsi_set_passthru_sense_fields(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
/* descriptor format */
len = sb[7];
- desc = (char *)scsi_sense_desc_find(sb, len + 8, 9);
+ desc = (char *)scsi_sense_desc_find(sb, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, 9);
if (!desc) {
- if (SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE < len + 14)
+ /*
+ * The descriptor is written at sb[8 + len] and is 14
+ * bytes long, so it needs len + 22 bytes of buffer.
+ */
+ if (len + 22 > SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE)
return;
sb[7] = len + 14;
desc = sb + 8 + len;
+ } else if (desc + 14 > sb + SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE) {
+ return;
}
desc[0] = 9;
desc[1] = 12;
base-commit: 40288c9206c17eb66a603262e06a58d300d0f279
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2.55.0