Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: avoid DMA to stack for the sense buffer

From: Jason Wang
Date: Wed Jan 04 2017 - 02:46:12 EST




On 2017å01æ04æ 13:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
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;

Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>