linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] scsi: megaraid_sas: check user-provided offsets

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Date:   Sun, 03 Jan 2021 09:00:45 -0800
From:   James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>, Phil Oester <kernel@...uxace.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@...adcom.com>,
        Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@...adcom.com>,
        Shivasharan S <shivasharan.srikanteshwara@...adcom.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "# 3.4.x" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Anand Lodnoor <anand.lodnoor@...adcom.com>,
        Chandrakanth Patil <chandrakanth.patil@...adcom.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, megaraidlinux.pdl@...adcom.com,
        linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] scsi: megaraid_sas: check user-provided offsets

On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 17:26 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
[...]
> @@ -8209,7 +8208,7 @@ megasas_mgmt_fw_ioctl(struct megasas_instance
> *instance,
>                 if (instance->consistent_mask_64bit)
>                         put_unaligned_le64(sense_handle, sense_ptr);
>                 else
> -                       put_unaligned_le32(sense_handle, sense_ptr);
> +                       put_unaligned_le64(sense_handle, sense_ptr);
>         }

This hunk can't be right.  It effectively means removing the if.
However, the if is needed because sense_handle is a dma_addr_t which
can be either 32 or 64 bit.  What about changing the if to 

if (sizeof(dma_addr_t) == 8)

instead?

James