This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mlx5: Avoid that mlx5_ib_sg_to_klms() overflows the klms[] array to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mlx5-avoid-that-mlx5_ib_sg_to_klms-overflows-the-klms-array.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 99975cd4fda52974a767aa44fe0b1a8f74950d9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:15:28 -0700 Subject: mlx5: Avoid that mlx5_ib_sg_to_klms() overflows the klms[] array From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 99975cd4fda52974a767aa44fe0b1a8f74950d9d upstream. ib_map_mr_sg() can pass an SG-list to .map_mr_sg() that is larger than what fits into a single MR. .map_mr_sg() must not attempt to map more SG-list elements than what fits into a single MR. Hence make sure that mlx5_ib_sg_to_klms() does not write outside the MR klms[] array. Fixes: b005d3164713 ("mlx5: Add arbitrary sg list support") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Israel Rukshin <israelr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c @@ -1779,7 +1779,7 @@ mlx5_ib_sg_to_klms(struct mlx5_ib_mr *mr mr->ndescs = sg_nents; for_each_sg(sgl, sg, sg_nents, i) { - if (unlikely(i > mr->max_descs)) + if (unlikely(i >= mr->max_descs)) break; klms[i].va = cpu_to_be64(sg_dma_address(sg) + sg_offset); klms[i].bcount = cpu_to_be32(sg_dma_len(sg) - sg_offset); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.12/mlx5-avoid-that-mlx5_ib_sg_to_klms-overflows-the-klms-array.patch queue-4.12/scsi-avoid-that-scsi_exit_rq-triggers-a-use-after-free.patch queue-4.12/xen-scsiback-fix-a-tmr-related-use-after-free.patch