linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] block: bio_map_user_iov should not be limited to BIO_MAX

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Date:   Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:52:07 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stefanha@...hat.com, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org (open list:BLOCK LAYER)
Subject: [PATCH v2] block: bio_map_user_iov should not be limited to BIO_MAX_PAGES

Because bio_kmalloc uses inline iovecs, the limit on the number of entries
is not BIO_MAX_PAGES but rather UIO_MAXIOV, which indeed is already checked
in bio_kmalloc.  This could cause SG_IO requests to be truncated and the HBA
to report a DMA overrun.

Note that if the argument to iov_iter_npages were changed to UIO_MAXIOV,
we would still truncate SG_IO requests beyond UIO_MAXIOV pages.  Changing
it to UIO_MAXIOV + 1 instead ensures that bio_kmalloc notices that the
request is too big and blocks it.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Fixes: b282cc766958 ("bio_map_user_iov(): get rid of the iov_for_each()", 2017-10-11)
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>

---
	v1->v2: now with "git commit"
---
 block/bio.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index 4db1008309ed..0914ae4adae9 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ struct bio *bio_map_user_iov(struct request_queue *q,
 	if (!iov_iter_count(iter))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

-	bio = bio_kmalloc(gfp_mask, iov_iter_npages(iter, BIO_MAX_PAGES));
+	bio = bio_kmalloc(gfp_mask, iov_iter_npages(iter, UIO_MAXIOV + 1));
 	if (!bio)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

-- 
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