Bryan Holty wrote:
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 10:19, Dan Aloni wrote:
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:54:54AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
This is a good email to discuss on the scsi list:
[email protected]; whom I've added to the cc list.
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 10:38 +0200, Dan Aloni wrote:
Improper calculation of the number of pages causes bio_alloc() to
be called with nr_iovecs=0, and slab corruption later.
For example, a simple scatterlist that fails: {(3644,452), (0, 60)},
(offset, size). bufflen=512 => nr_pages=1 => breakage. The proper
page count for this example is 2.
Such a scatterlist would likely violate the device's underlying
boundaries and is not legal ... there's supposed to be special code
checking the queue alignment and copying the bio to an aligned buffer if
the limits are violated. Where are you generating these scatterlists
from?
These scatterlists can be generated using the sg driver. Though I am
actually running a customized version of the sg driver, it seems the
conversion from a userspace array of sg_iovec_t to scatterlist stays
the same and also applies to the original driver (see
st_map_user_pages()).
Hello,
I am seeing the same issue when using direct io with sg. sg will perform
direct io on any date that is aligned with the devices dma_align. The
default for drivers that do not specify is 512. sg builds the scatter gather
list from the user specified location, offsetting the first entry in the list
if not page aligned. This is the case that causes the improper allocation of
"nr_iovec" in scsi_req_map_sgand the later slab corruption.
I don't think it is necessary to calculate nr_pages from the entire list.
Only sgl[0] is allowed to have an offset, so we can calculate from that as
follows.
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c 2006-03-03 13:17:22.000000000 -0600
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c 2006-03-21 11:36:39.389763804 -0600
@@ -368,12 +368,15 @@
int nsegs, unsigned bufflen, gfp_t gfp)
{
struct request_queue *q = rq->q;
- int nr_pages = (bufflen + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ int nr_pages = 0;
unsigned int data_len = 0, len, bytes, off;
struct page *page;
struct bio *bio = NULL;
int i, err, nr_vecs = 0;
-
+
+ if (nsegs)
you can drop that test
+ nr_pages = (bufflen + sgl[0].offset + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
I think we can do this without looping but I think this is broken. If we
had a slight variant of Dan's example but we have a page and some change
in the first entry {3644, 4548} and 0,60} in the last one, that would
would only calculate two pages but we want three.
I think we can have to calculate the first and last entries but the
middle ones we can assume have no offset and lengths that are multiples
of a page.
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