Re: [PATCH] zfcp: Test kmalloc failure in scsi_get_vpd_page()

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On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 09:35 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 14:45 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> > On 08/28/2009 02:45 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 18:21 +0200, Roel Kluin wrote:
> > >> kmalloc() may fail, so test whether it succeeded.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >> ---
> > >> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
> > >> index 2de5f3a..34fdde0 100644
> > >> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
> > >> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
> > >> @@ -1056,6 +1056,9 @@ unsigned char *scsi_get_vpd_page(struct scsi_device *sdev, u8 page)
> > >>  
> > >>  	kfree(buf);
> > >>  	buf = kmalloc(len + 4, GFP_KERNEL);
> > >> +	if (!buf)
> > >> +		return NULL;
> > >> +
> > > 
> > > Firstly, this won't actually apply ... you should be developing against
> > > either the SCSI trees or linux-next to get the latest versions in git.
> > > 
> > > Secondly it's not really right for the most common use cases, which
> > > don't usually want the whole vpd buffer anyway.  I don't really see a
> > > simple way of fixing it without altering the interface, though.
> > > 
> > 
> > "most common use cases" do not have pages bigger then 255. Can you think
> > of any? For these few places that anticipate pages bigger then 255 I don't
> > see much choice, we just freed 255 bytes and tried a new size, say 317, which
> > failed with GFP_KERNEL, In such a busy system, better fail with NULL then BUG,
> > No? In any way caller must check for NULL because of the first allocation.
> 
> Other way around: common use cases means the callers.  What I'm saying
> is that regardless of the size of the VPD page, the caller usually only
> wants a few bytes into it.  Once we have all the information the caller
> ever needs, there's no point in trying again with a larger buffer just
> because the VPD page is larger ... to code this into the interface,
> though, the caller would need to specify the max length it is looking
> for.

OK, it's been a couple of months and  no patch has been forthcoming on
this, so how about the attached?  It does the query and only adjusts the
size where the caller actually wants to bother.

James

---

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
index a60da55..513661f 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
@@ -1026,55 +1026,39 @@ static int scsi_vpd_inquiry(struct scsi_device *sdev, unsigned char *buffer,
  * responsible for calling kfree() on this pointer when it is no longer
  * needed.  If we cannot retrieve the VPD page this routine returns %NULL.
  */
-unsigned char *scsi_get_vpd_page(struct scsi_device *sdev, u8 page)
+int scsi_get_vpd_page(struct scsi_device *sdev, u8 page, unsigned char *buf,
+		      int buf_len)
 {
 	int i, result;
-	unsigned int len;
-	const unsigned int init_vpd_len = 255;
-	unsigned char *buf = kmalloc(init_vpd_len, GFP_KERNEL);
-
-	if (!buf)
-		return NULL;
 
 	/* Ask for all the pages supported by this device */
-	result = scsi_vpd_inquiry(sdev, buf, 0, init_vpd_len);
+	result = scsi_vpd_inquiry(sdev, buf, 0, buf_len);
 	if (result)
 		goto fail;
 
 	/* If the user actually wanted this page, we can skip the rest */
 	if (page == 0)
-		return buf;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < buf[3]; i++)
+	for (i = 0; i < min((int)buf[3], buf_len - 4); i++)
 		if (buf[i + 4] == page)
 			goto found;
+
+	if (i < buf[3] && i > buf_len)
+		/* ran off the end of the buffer, give us benefit of doubt */
+		goto found;
 	/* The device claims it doesn't support the requested page */
 	goto fail;
 
  found:
-	result = scsi_vpd_inquiry(sdev, buf, page, 255);
+	result = scsi_vpd_inquiry(sdev, buf, page, buf_len);
 	if (result)
 		goto fail;
 
-	/*
-	 * Some pages are longer than 255 bytes.  The actual length of
-	 * the page is returned in the header.
-	 */
-	len = ((buf[2] << 8) | buf[3]) + 4;
-	if (len <= init_vpd_len)
-		return buf;
-
-	kfree(buf);
-	buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
-	result = scsi_vpd_inquiry(sdev, buf, page, len);
-	if (result)
-		goto fail;
-
-	return buf;
+	return 0;
 
  fail:
-	kfree(buf);
-	return NULL;
+	return -EINVAL;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(scsi_get_vpd_page);
 
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index 9093c72..fd1bd8f 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -1864,19 +1864,20 @@ void sd_read_app_tag_own(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, unsigned char *buffer)
 static void sd_read_block_limits(struct scsi_disk *sdkp)
 {
 	unsigned int sector_sz = sdkp->device->sector_size;
-	char *buffer;
+	const int vpd_len = 32;
+	unsigned char *buffer = kmalloc(vpd_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	/* Block Limits VPD */
-	buffer = scsi_get_vpd_page(sdkp->device, 0xb0);
-
-	if (buffer == NULL)
-		return;
+	if (!buffer ||
+	    /* Block Limits VPD */
+	    scsi_get_vpd_page(sdkp->device, 0xb0, buffer, vpd_len))
+		goto out;
 
 	blk_queue_io_min(sdkp->disk->queue,
 			 get_unaligned_be16(&buffer[6]) * sector_sz);
 	blk_queue_io_opt(sdkp->disk->queue,
 			 get_unaligned_be32(&buffer[12]) * sector_sz);
 
+ out:
 	kfree(buffer);
 }
 
@@ -1886,20 +1887,23 @@ static void sd_read_block_limits(struct scsi_disk *sdkp)
  */
 static void sd_read_block_characteristics(struct scsi_disk *sdkp)
 {
-	char *buffer;
+	unsigned char *buffer;
 	u16 rot;
+	const int vpd_len = 32;
 
-	/* Block Device Characteristics VPD */
-	buffer = scsi_get_vpd_page(sdkp->device, 0xb1);
+	buffer = kmalloc(vpd_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	if (buffer == NULL)
-		return;
+	if (!buffer ||
+	    /* Block Device Characteristics VPD */
+	    scsi_get_vpd_page(sdkp->device, 0xb1, buffer, vpd_len))
+		goto out;
 
 	rot = get_unaligned_be16(&buffer[4]);
 
 	if (rot == 1)
 		queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, sdkp->disk->queue);
 
+ out:
 	kfree(buffer);
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ses.c b/drivers/scsi/ses.c
index 55b034b..1d7a878 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/ses.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ses.c
@@ -448,13 +448,17 @@ static void ses_match_to_enclosure(struct enclosure_device *edev,
 		.addr = 0,
 	};
 
-	buf = scsi_get_vpd_page(sdev, 0x83);
-	if (!buf)
-		return;
+	buf = kmalloc(INIT_ALLOC_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buf || scsi_get_vpd_page(sdev, 0x83, buf, INIT_ALLOC_SIZE))
+		goto free;
 
 	ses_enclosure_data_process(edev, to_scsi_device(edev->edev.parent), 0);
 
 	vpd_len = ((buf[2] << 8) | buf[3]) + 4;
+	kfree(buf);
+	buf = kmalloc(vpd_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buf ||scsi_get_vpd_page(sdev, 0x83, buf, vpd_len))
+		goto free;
 
 	desc = buf + 4;
 	while (desc < buf + vpd_len) {
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
index 68d185c..fe66d34 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
@@ -347,7 +347,8 @@ extern int scsi_mode_select(struct scsi_device *sdev, int pf, int sp,
 			    struct scsi_sense_hdr *);
 extern int scsi_test_unit_ready(struct scsi_device *sdev, int timeout,
 				int retries, struct scsi_sense_hdr *sshdr);
-extern unsigned char *scsi_get_vpd_page(struct scsi_device *, u8 page);
+extern int scsi_get_vpd_page(struct scsi_device *, u8 page, unsigned char *buf,
+			     int buf_len);
 extern int scsi_device_set_state(struct scsi_device *sdev,
 				 enum scsi_device_state state);
 extern struct scsi_event *sdev_evt_alloc(enum scsi_device_event evt_type,



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