On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 12:10:15PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Avoid that submitting an SG_IO ioctl triggers a kernel oops that > is preceded by: > > usercopy: kernel memory overwrite attempt detected to (null) (<null>) (6 bytes) > kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:72! > > Reported-by: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Fixes: commit ca18d6f769d2 ("block: Make most scsi_req_init() calls implicit") > Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.13 > --- > drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 10 ++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c > index 34e17ee799be..e477d4a5181e 100644 > --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c > +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c > @@ -593,10 +593,20 @@ static int virtblk_map_queues(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set) > return blk_mq_virtio_map_queues(set, vblk->vdev, 0); > } > > +static void virtblk_initialize_rq(struct request *req) > +{ > + struct virtblk_req *vbr = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(req); > + > +#ifdef CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI > + scsi_req_init(&vbr->sreq); > +#endif How about only defininig the initialize_rq method and implementation if CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI is set? Else looks good: Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>