Re: [PATCH] iscsi-target: Don't use stack buffer for scatterlist

[Mike Christie]

ccing Maurizio because he was working on the same issue.

On 08/22/2018 12:37 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Fedora got a bug report of a crash with iSCSI:
> 
> kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:143!
> ...
> RIP: 0010:iscsit_do_crypto_hash_buf+0x154/0x180 [iscsi_target_mod]
> ...
>  Call Trace:
>   ? iscsi_target_tx_thread+0x200/0x200 [iscsi_target_mod]
>   iscsit_get_rx_pdu+0x4cd/0xa90 [iscsi_target_mod]
>   ? native_sched_clock+0x3e/0xa0
>   ? iscsi_target_tx_thread+0x200/0x200 [iscsi_target_mod]
>   iscsi_target_rx_thread+0x81/0xf0 [iscsi_target_mod]
>   kthread+0x120/0x140
>   ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
>   ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
> 
> This is a BUG_ON for using a stack buffer with a scatterlist.
> There are two cases that trigger this bug. Switch to using a
> dynamically allocated buffer for one case and do not assign
> a NULL buffer in another case.
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1615258
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 11 +++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
> index 8e223799347a..8b40f0e99e2c 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
> @@ -1419,7 +1419,8 @@ static void iscsit_do_crypto_hash_buf(struct ahash_request *hash,
>  
>  	sg_init_table(sg, ARRAY_SIZE(sg));
>  	sg_set_buf(sg, buf, payload_length);
> -	sg_set_buf(sg + 1, pad_bytes, padding);
> +	if (padding)
> +		sg_set_buf(sg + 1, pad_bytes, padding);
>  
>  	ahash_request_set_crypt(hash, sg, data_crc, payload_length + padding);
>  
> @@ -3913,10 +3914,14 @@ static bool iscsi_target_check_conn_state(struct iscsi_conn *conn)
>  static void iscsit_get_rx_pdu(struct iscsi_conn *conn)
>  {
>  	int ret;
> -	u8 buffer[ISCSI_HDR_LEN], opcode;
> +	u8 *buffer, opcode;
>  	u32 checksum = 0, digest = 0;
>  	struct kvec iov;
>  
> +	buffer = kmalloc_array(ISCSI_HDR_LEN, sizeof(*buffer), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!buffer)
> +		return;
> +
>  	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
>  		/*
>  		 * Ensure that both TX and RX per connection kthreads
> @@ -3985,6 +3990,8 @@ static void iscsit_get_rx_pdu(struct iscsi_conn *conn)
>  		if (ret < 0)
>  			return;
>  	}

You need to also change all the returns to breaks between the kmalloc
above and kfree here.

> +	kfree(buffer);
>  }
>  
>  int iscsi_target_rx_thread(void *arg)
>