Hello Adheer Chandravanshi, The patch 1e9e2be3ee03: "[SCSI] qla4xxx: Add flash node mgmt support" from Mar 22, 2013, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c:3723 qla4xxx_copy_to_fwddb_param() warn: 'conn->redirect_ipaddr' sometimes too small '16' size = 32 drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c 3637 static int qla4xxx_copy_to_fwddb_param(struct iscsi_bus_flash_session *sess, 3638 struct iscsi_bus_flash_conn *conn, 3639 struct dev_db_entry *fw_ddb_entry) 3640 { 3641 uint16_t options; 3642 int rc = 0; 3643 3644 options = le16_to_cpu(fw_ddb_entry->options); 3645 SET_BITVAL(conn->is_fw_assigned_ipv6, options, BIT_11); 3646 if (!strncmp(sess->portal_type, PORTAL_TYPE_IPV6, 4)) 3647 options |= BIT_8; 3648 else 3649 options &= ~BIT_8; 3650 3651 SET_BITVAL(sess->auto_snd_tgt_disable, options, BIT_6); 3652 SET_BITVAL(sess->discovery_sess, options, BIT_4); 3653 SET_BITVAL(sess->entry_state, options, BIT_3); 3654 fw_ddb_entry->options = cpu_to_le16(options); 3655 3656 options = le16_to_cpu(fw_ddb_entry->iscsi_options); 3657 SET_BITVAL(conn->hdrdgst_en, options, BIT_13); 3658 SET_BITVAL(conn->datadgst_en, options, BIT_12); 3659 SET_BITVAL(sess->imm_data_en, options, BIT_11); 3660 SET_BITVAL(sess->initial_r2t_en, options, BIT_10); 3661 SET_BITVAL(sess->dataseq_inorder_en, options, BIT_9); 3662 SET_BITVAL(sess->pdu_inorder_en, options, BIT_8); 3663 SET_BITVAL(sess->chap_auth_en, options, BIT_7); 3664 SET_BITVAL(conn->snack_req_en, options, BIT_6); 3665 SET_BITVAL(sess->discovery_logout_en, options, BIT_5); 3666 SET_BITVAL(sess->bidi_chap_en, options, BIT_4); 3667 SET_BITVAL(sess->discovery_auth_optional, options, BIT_3); 3668 SET_BITVAL(sess->erl & BIT_1, options, BIT_1); 3669 SET_BITVAL(sess->erl & BIT_0, options, BIT_0); 3670 fw_ddb_entry->iscsi_options = cpu_to_le16(options); 3671 3672 options = le16_to_cpu(fw_ddb_entry->tcp_options); 3673 SET_BITVAL(conn->tcp_timestamp_stat, options, BIT_6); 3674 SET_BITVAL(conn->tcp_nagle_disable, options, BIT_5); 3675 SET_BITVAL(conn->tcp_wsf_disable, options, BIT_4); 3676 SET_BITVAL(conn->tcp_timer_scale & BIT_2, options, BIT_3); 3677 SET_BITVAL(conn->tcp_timer_scale & BIT_1, options, BIT_2); 3678 SET_BITVAL(conn->tcp_timer_scale & BIT_0, options, BIT_1); 3679 SET_BITVAL(conn->tcp_timestamp_en, options, BIT_0); 3680 fw_ddb_entry->tcp_options = cpu_to_le16(options); 3681 3682 options = le16_to_cpu(fw_ddb_entry->ip_options); 3683 SET_BITVAL(conn->fragment_disable, options, BIT_4); 3684 fw_ddb_entry->ip_options = cpu_to_le16(options); 3685 3686 fw_ddb_entry->iscsi_max_outsnd_r2t = cpu_to_le16(sess->max_r2t); 3687 fw_ddb_entry->iscsi_max_rcv_data_seg_len = 3688 cpu_to_le16(conn->max_recv_dlength / BYTE_UNITS); 3689 fw_ddb_entry->iscsi_max_snd_data_seg_len = 3690 cpu_to_le16(conn->max_xmit_dlength / BYTE_UNITS); 3691 fw_ddb_entry->iscsi_first_burst_len = 3692 cpu_to_le16(sess->first_burst / BYTE_UNITS); 3693 fw_ddb_entry->iscsi_max_burst_len = cpu_to_le16(sess->max_burst / 3694 BYTE_UNITS); 3695 fw_ddb_entry->iscsi_def_time2wait = cpu_to_le16(sess->time2wait); 3696 fw_ddb_entry->iscsi_def_time2retain = cpu_to_le16(sess->time2retain); 3697 fw_ddb_entry->tgt_portal_grp = cpu_to_le16(sess->tpgt); 3698 fw_ddb_entry->mss = cpu_to_le16(conn->max_segment_size); 3699 fw_ddb_entry->tcp_xmt_wsf = (uint8_t) cpu_to_le32(conn->tcp_xmit_wsf); 3700 fw_ddb_entry->tcp_rcv_wsf = (uint8_t) cpu_to_le32(conn->tcp_recv_wsf); 3701 fw_ddb_entry->ipv6_flow_lbl = cpu_to_le16(conn->ipv6_flow_label); 3702 fw_ddb_entry->ka_timeout = cpu_to_le16(conn->keepalive_timeout); 3703 fw_ddb_entry->lcl_port = cpu_to_le16(conn->local_port); 3704 fw_ddb_entry->stat_sn = cpu_to_le32(conn->statsn); 3705 fw_ddb_entry->exp_stat_sn = cpu_to_le32(conn->exp_statsn); 3706 fw_ddb_entry->ddb_link = cpu_to_le16(sess->discovery_parent_idx); 3707 fw_ddb_entry->chap_tbl_idx = cpu_to_le16(sess->chap_out_idx); 3708 fw_ddb_entry->tsid = cpu_to_le16(sess->tsid); 3709 fw_ddb_entry->port = cpu_to_le16(conn->port); 3710 fw_ddb_entry->def_timeout = 3711 cpu_to_le16(sess->default_taskmgmt_timeout); 3712 3713 if (!strncmp(sess->portal_type, PORTAL_TYPE_IPV6, 4)) 3714 fw_ddb_entry->ipv4_tos = conn->ipv6_traffic_class; 3715 else 3716 fw_ddb_entry->ipv4_tos = conn->ipv4_tos; 3717 3718 if (conn->ipaddress) 3719 memcpy(fw_ddb_entry->ip_addr, conn->ipaddress, 3720 sizeof(fw_ddb_entry->ip_addr)); 3721 3722 if (conn->redirect_ipaddr) 3723 memcpy(fw_ddb_entry->tgt_addr, conn->redirect_ipaddr, 3724 sizeof(fw_ddb_entry->tgt_addr)); The conn->redirect_ipaddr is IPv6_ADDR_LEN (16) bytes. It is allocated in qla4xxx_copy_from_fwddb_param(). The w_ddb_entry->tgt_addr[] is a 32 byte buffer. So this is definitely a read overflow and copying garbage from beyond the end of the buffer. I guess ->redirect_ipaddr has the first part of fw_ddb_entry->tgt_addr? 3725 3726 if (conn->link_local_ipv6_addr) 3727 memcpy(fw_ddb_entry->link_local_ipv6_addr, 3728 conn->link_local_ipv6_addr, 3729 sizeof(fw_ddb_entry->link_local_ipv6_addr)); 3730 3731 if (sess->targetname) 3732 memcpy(fw_ddb_entry->iscsi_name, sess->targetname, 3733 sizeof(fw_ddb_entry->iscsi_name)); 3734 3735 if (sess->targetalias) 3736 memcpy(fw_ddb_entry->iscsi_alias, sess->targetalias, 3737 sizeof(fw_ddb_entry->iscsi_alias)); 3738 3739 COPY_ISID(fw_ddb_entry->isid, sess->isid); 3740 3741 return rc; 3742 } regards, dan carpenter