Thanks for having taken a look. I found the above check in sg_new_write(). To me that function seems to come from a code path that is unrelated to sg_io(), the function shown in the call stack in the email at the start of this thread. Maybe I overlooked something but I haven't found a minimum size check for hdr->cmd_len in sg_io() before the blk_execute_rq() call. Should such a check perhaps be added?
I guess it came from ioctl(<non_sg_fd>, SG_IO, ) and I found no lower bound
check when I looked in lk 5.15.0 . No-one has complained to me about the
hp->cmd_len < 6
check in the sg driver ***. So I think such a check may be useful in the scsi_fill_sghdr_rq() function in drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c . And a return
of -EMSGSIZE seems to be tailor made for this situation.
Doug Gilbert
*** It is possible a vendor specific command could be between 1 and 5 bytes
long, but that would probably be an unwise choice.