[PATCH v5] scsi: fill in DMA padding bytes in scsi_alloc_sgtables
From: Petr Vaganov
Date: Sun Jun 28 2026 - 14:53:27 EST
During fuzz testing, the following issue was discovered:
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __dma_map_sg_attrs+0x217/0x310
__dma_map_sg_attrs+0x217/0x310
dma_map_sg_attrs+0x4a/0x70
ata_qc_issue+0x9f8/0x1420
__ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x1657/0x1740
ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x79a/0x920
scsi_queue_rq+0x4472/0x4f40
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x1cca/0x3ee0
__blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x458/0x630
blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x15b/0x340
__blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0xe5/0x250
__blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x138/0x780
blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x4bb/0x7e0
blk_mq_sched_insert_request+0x2a7/0x4c0
blk_execute_rq+0x497/0x8a0
sg_io+0xbe0/0xe20
scsi_ioctl+0x2b36/0x3c60
sr_block_ioctl+0x319/0x440
blkdev_ioctl+0x80f/0xd70
__se_sys_ioctl+0x219/0x420
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xe0
x64_sys_call+0x1d6c/0x3ad0
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
Uninit was created at:
__alloc_pages+0x5c0/0xc80
alloc_pages+0xe0e/0x1050
blk_rq_map_user_iov+0x2b77/0x6100
blk_rq_map_user_io+0x2fa/0x4d0
sg_io+0xad6/0xe20
scsi_ioctl+0x2b36/0x3c60
sr_block_ioctl+0x319/0x440
blkdev_ioctl+0x80f/0xd70
__se_sys_ioctl+0x219/0x420
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xe0
x64_sys_call+0x1d6c/0x3ad0
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
Bytes 14-15 of 16 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 16 starts at ffff88800cbdb000
When processing the last unaligned element of the scatterlist,
it is supplemented with missing bytes in the amount of pad_len.
These bytes remain uninitialized, which leads to a problem.
Extend last_sg->length by pad_len first, then use sg_zero_buffer() to
zero those pad_len bytes. sg_zero_buffer() uses sg_miter internally,
which correctly handles sg entries spanning multiple pages and padding
that crosses a page boundary.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
Fixes: 40b01b9bbdf5 ("block: update bio according to DMA alignment padding")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Petr Vaganov <p.vaganov@xxxxxxxx>
---
v2: Added tag "Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx".
v3: Resending this patch as the issue is still present in the current
kernel and the previous submission did not receive review.
v4: Use pfn_to_page()/page_to_pfn() arithmetic to locate the correct
page when the last sg element spans multiple pages, fixing a
potential out-of-bounds write.
Use memzero_page() instead of open-coded kmap/memset/kunmap.
Handle the case where padding crosses a page boundary.
v5: Replace hand-rolled page mapping with sg_zero_buffer(), which
handles multi-page sg entries and page boundary splits correctly
via sg_miter.
---
drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index 22e2e3223..686cef240 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -1187,8 +1187,10 @@ blk_status_t scsi_alloc_sgtables(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd)
if (blk_rq_bytes(rq) & rq->q->limits.dma_pad_mask) {
unsigned int pad_len =
(rq->q->limits.dma_pad_mask & ~blk_rq_bytes(rq)) + 1;
+ unsigned int data_len = last_sg->length;
last_sg->length += pad_len;
+ sg_zero_buffer(last_sg, 1, pad_len, data_len);
cmd->extra_len += pad_len;
}
--
2.49.0