On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 11:58:41AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > From: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > [ Upstream commit 57a13a5b8157d9a8606490aaa1b805bafe6c37e1 ] > > The block layer can't support a block size larger than > page size yet. And a block size that's too small or > not a power of two won't work either. If a misconfigured > device presents an invalid block size in configuration space, > it will result in the kernel crash something like below: > > [ 506.154324] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 > [ 506.160416] RIP: 0010:create_empty_buffers+0x24/0x100 > [ 506.174302] Call Trace: > [ 506.174651] create_page_buffers+0x4d/0x60 > [ 506.175207] block_read_full_page+0x50/0x380 > [ 506.175798] ? __mod_lruvec_page_state+0x60/0xa0 > [ 506.176412] ? __add_to_page_cache_locked+0x1b2/0x390 > [ 506.177085] ? blkdev_direct_IO+0x4a0/0x4a0 > [ 506.177644] ? scan_shadow_nodes+0x30/0x30 > [ 506.178206] ? lru_cache_add+0x42/0x60 > [ 506.178716] do_read_cache_page+0x695/0x740 > [ 506.179278] ? read_part_sector+0xe0/0xe0 > [ 506.179821] read_part_sector+0x36/0xe0 > [ 506.180337] adfspart_check_ICS+0x32/0x320 > [ 506.180890] ? snprintf+0x45/0x70 > [ 506.181350] ? read_part_sector+0xe0/0xe0 > [ 506.181906] bdev_disk_changed+0x229/0x5c0 > [ 506.182483] blkdev_get_whole+0x6d/0x90 > [ 506.183013] blkdev_get_by_dev+0x122/0x2d0 > [ 506.183562] device_add_disk+0x39e/0x3c0 > [ 506.184472] virtblk_probe+0x3f8/0x79b [virtio_blk] > [ 506.185461] virtio_dev_probe+0x15e/0x1d0 [virtio] > > So let's use a block layer helper to validate the block size. > > Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026144015.188-5-xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 12 ++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) What stable tree(s) are you wanting this backported to? thanks, greg k-h
