This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled libata: don't try to pass through NCQ commands to non-NCQ devices to the 4.15-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: libata-don-t-try-to-pass-through-ncq-commands-to-non-ncq-devices.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2c1ec6fda2d07044cda922ee25337cf5d4b429b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 20:33:51 -0800 Subject: libata: don't try to pass through NCQ commands to non-NCQ devices From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 2c1ec6fda2d07044cda922ee25337cf5d4b429b3 upstream. syzkaller hit a WARN() in ata_bmdma_qc_issue() when writing to /dev/sg0. This happened because it issued an ATA pass-through command (ATA_16) where the protocol field indicated that NCQ should be used -- but the device did not support NCQ. We could just remove the WARN() from libata-sff.c, but the real problem seems to be that the SCSI -> ATA translation code passes through NCQ commands without verifying that the device actually supports NCQ. Fix this by adding the appropriate check to ata_scsi_pass_thru(). Here's reproducer that works in QEMU when /dev/sg0 refers to a disk of the default type ("82371SB PIIX3 IDE"): #include <fcntl.h> #include <unistd.h> int main() { char buf[53] = { 0 }; buf[36] = 0x85; /* ATA_16 */ buf[37] = (12 << 1); /* FPDMA */ buf[38] = 0x1; /* Has data */ buf[51] = 0xC8; /* ATA_CMD_READ */ write(open("/dev/sg0", O_RDWR), buf, sizeof(buf)); } Fixes: ee7fb331c3ac ("libata: add support for NCQ commands for SG interface") Reported-by: syzbot+2f69ca28df61bdfc77cd36af2e789850355a221e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.4+ Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c @@ -3316,6 +3316,12 @@ static unsigned int ata_scsi_pass_thru(s goto invalid_fld; } + /* We may not issue NCQ commands to devices not supporting NCQ */ + if (ata_is_ncq(tf->protocol) && !ata_ncq_enabled(dev)) { + fp = 1; + goto invalid_fld; + } + /* sanity check for pio multi commands */ if ((cdb[1] & 0xe0) && !is_multi_taskfile(tf)) { fp = 1; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/libata-fix-length-validation-of-atapi-relayed-scsi-commands.patch queue-4.15/libata-remove-warn-for-dma-or-pio-command-without-data.patch queue-4.15/libata-don-t-try-to-pass-through-ncq-commands-to-non-ncq-devices.patch