On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 10:57:36AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 09:29:05PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
+static bool nvme_validate_passthru_meta(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl,
+ struct nvme_ns *ns,
+ struct nvme_command *c,
+ __u64 meta, __u32 meta_len)
+{
+ /*
+ * User may specify smaller meta-buffer with a larger data-buffer.
+ * Driver allocated meta buffer will also be small.
+ * Device can do larger dma into that, overwriting unrelated kernel
+ * memory.
+ */
+ if (ns && (meta_len || meta)) {
+ u16 nlb = lower_16_bits(le32_to_cpu(c->common.cdw12));
+
+ if (meta_len != (nlb + 1) * ns->ms) {
+ dev_err(ctrl->device,
+ "%s: metadata length does not match!\n", current->comm);
+ return false;
+ }
Don't you need to check the command PRINFO PRACT bit to know if metadata
length is striped/generated on the controller side?
Good point. Will add that check in v2.