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 | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c index 34e17ee799be..b44f5b7e68f6 100644 --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c @@ -593,10 +593,18 @@ 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); + + scsi_req_init(&vbr->sreq); +} + static const struct blk_mq_ops virtio_mq_ops = { .queue_rq = virtio_queue_rq, .complete = virtblk_request_done, .init_request = virtblk_init_request, + .initialize_rq_fn = virtblk_initialize_rq, .map_queues = virtblk_map_queues, }; -- 2.14.2