[PATCH] scsi: target: rd: Reject page counts larger than total RAM

From: Sanan Hasanov

Date: Thu Oct 08 2026 - 18:01:23 EST


From: Sanan Hasanov <sanan.hasanov@xxxxxxx>

The rd_pages= device parameter is taken from configfs without an upper
bound. rd_build_device_space() uses it to size the sg table array, so a
large value such as INT_MAX makes it attempt a kzalloc() of roughly
64 MiB, which is above the page allocator's maximum order and triggers:

WARNING: mm/page_alloc.c:5340 at __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x294/0x874
Call trace:
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x294/0x874 (P)
___kmalloc_large_node+0x64/0xd0
__kmalloc_noprof+0x24/0x54
rd_configure_device+0x74/0xdc
target_configure_device+0xa0/0x1c4
target_dev_enable_store+0x4c/0x5c
configfs_write_iter+0xec/0x124

A ramdisk is backed page-by-page by system memory, so a page count
larger than totalram_pages() can never be satisfied. Reject it with
-EINVAL before allocating anything. NULLIO devices allocate no backing
pages and are not affected.

Fixes: c66ac9db8d4a ("[SCSI] target: Add LIO target core v4.0.0-rc6")
Reported-by: syzbot+fa495e1497c48a6ed885@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=fa495e1497c48a6ed885
Signed-off-by: Sanan Hasanov <sanan.hasanov@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/target/target_core_rd.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c b/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
index 092d9fe0d..3700cc1b5 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/parser.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/timer.h>
#include <linux/scatterlist.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -188,6 +189,12 @@ static int rd_build_device_space(struct rd_dev *rd_dev)
if (rd_dev->rd_flags & RDF_NULLIO)
return 0;

+ if (rd_dev->rd_page_count > totalram_pages()) {
+ pr_err("Page count: %u exceeds total RAM pages: %lu for Ramdisk device\n",
+ rd_dev->rd_page_count, totalram_pages());
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
total_sg_needed = rd_dev->rd_page_count;

sg_tables = (total_sg_needed / max_sg_per_table) + 1;
--
2.48.1