On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 08:25:05AM +0300, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Most users of BLOCK_PC requests allocate the sense buffer on the stack, > so to avoid DMA to the stack copy them to a field in the heap allocated > virtblk_req structure. Without that any attempt at SCSI passthrough I/O, > including the SG_IO ioctl from userspace will crash the kernel. Note that > this includes running tools like hdparm even when the host does not have > SCSI passthrough enabled. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > --- > drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c > index 5545a67..3c3b8f6 100644 > --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c > +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c > @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ struct virtblk_req { > struct virtio_blk_outhdr out_hdr; > struct virtio_scsi_inhdr in_hdr; > u8 status; > + u8 sense[SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE]; > struct scatterlist sg[]; > }; > > @@ -102,7 +103,8 @@ static int __virtblk_add_req(struct virtqueue *vq, > } > > if (type == cpu_to_virtio32(vq->vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_T_SCSI_CMD)) { > - sg_init_one(&sense, vbr->req->sense, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE); > + memcpy(vbr->sense, vbr->req->sense, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE); > + sg_init_one(&sense, vbr->sense, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE); I would prefer sizeof(vbr->sense) here to avoid duplication. Otherwise: Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> > sgs[num_out + num_in++] = &sense; > sg_init_one(&inhdr, &vbr->in_hdr, sizeof(vbr->in_hdr)); > sgs[num_out + num_in++] = &inhdr; > -- > 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html