Re: [PATCH v3] vdpa/mlx5: Fix buffer length in create_direct_keys()

From: Christian Borntraeger

Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 09:27:54 EST


Am 10.07.26 um 13:37 schrieb Dragos Tatulea:


On 10.07.26 10:23, Dragos Tatulea wrote:


On 10.07.26 09:18, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
Am 07.07.26 um 09:17 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
Am 06.07.26 um 16:15 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
We have seen in our CI the following KASAN message:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in cmd_exec+0x550/0xca0 [mlx5_core]
Read of size 272 at addr 0000000176795020 by task qemu-system-s39/82764
[...]
[<000011388ab3a7a0>] cmd_exec+0x550/0xca0 [mlx5_core]
[<000011388ab3b61c>] mlx5_cmd_exec_cb+0x25c/0x4f0 [mlx5_core]
[<000011388b21e82e>] mlx5_vdpa_exec_async_cmds+0x22e/0x5e0 [mlx5_vdpa]
[<000011388b21fd44>] create_direct_keys+0x954/0xef0 [mlx5_vdpa]
[...]
The buggy address is located 4128 bytes inside of
allocated 4384-byte region [0000000176794000, 0000000176795120)

So in essence we read 16 bytes beyond 4384-byte allocation.
create_direct_keys calculates the pointer and length for in and out
buffers.
The size calculation for in includes the entire structure
size (out + in + mtt[]) but the pointer passed to cmd_exec points only
to the 'in' field, skipping the 'out' field.

This causes mlx5_copy_to_msg() to read beyond the allocated buffer
by sizeof(out) bytes when copying command data.

Properly calculate the input size to match the pointer and allocation size.

Fixes: 0071b138d44a ("vdpa/mlx5: Create direct MKEYs in parallel")
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Dragos,

With this fix our nighly CI did not result in a kasan message. As I only have
limited test coverage a full regression on your side might still be the right
thing to do.

Any feedback?

Sorry, got carried away with other stuff. Yes, I will check it on our side.

Until then:
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@xxxxxxxxxx>

I was able to reproduce the issue with KASAN during our live migration tests.
With this patch the issue is gone. Thanks for the fix!
Tested-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@xxxxxxxxxx>
Ping. I cannot find this in next.