From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>,
netfs@lists.linux.dev, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3] block: Fix start and length check added to iov_iter_extract_bvecs()
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:21:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1456602.1788783694@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
Commit 14b007e17881 added an address check using iter_iov_addr() and a
length check using iter_iov_len() to iov_iter_extract_bvecs(), but these
cannot be used so and are unsafe in this circumstance as the functions have
hardwired assumptions about the iterator type. They should only be used
with ITER_UBUF or ITER_IOVEC-type iterators; they shouldn't be used with
ITER_BVEC, ITER_KVEC, ITER_FOLIOQ, ITER_XARRAY or ITER_DISCARD iterators.
This proves to be a problem for cachefiles as an iterator of type
ITER_FOLIOQ is passed and iter_iov_addr() and iter_iov_len() both
malfunction because iter->__iov in iter_iov() is not pointing to an iovec
array.
Fix this by using iov_iter_alignment() instead.
Fixes: 14b007e17881 ("block: validate user space vectors during extraction")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
---
lib/iov_iter.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index 6665372ecf71..5e9f9e2c30b1 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -1921,15 +1921,29 @@ ssize_t iov_iter_extract_bvecs(struct iov_iter *iter, struct bio_vec *bv,
unsigned short max_vecs, unsigned mem_align_mask,
iov_iter_extraction_t extraction_flags)
{
- unsigned long start = (unsigned long)iter_iov_addr(iter);
unsigned short entries_left = max_vecs - *nr_vecs;
unsigned short nr_pages, i = 0;
size_t left, offset, len;
struct page **pages;
ssize_t size;
- if ((start | iter_iov_len(iter)) & mem_align_mask)
+ /*
+ * DMA engines typically have both memory address and length alignment
+ * requirements, so check these against the alignment mask. For UBUF,
+ * IOVEC and KVEC, only the current segment will be drawn from; for
+ * everything else we might draw from multiple segments, so we need to
+ * check those too.
+ */
+ if (likely(iter_is_ubuf(iter) ||
+ iter_is_iovec(iter) ||
+ iov_iter_is_kvec(iter))) {
+ unsigned long start = (unsigned long)iter_iov_addr(iter);
+
+ if ((start | iter_iov_len(iter)) & mem_align_mask)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ } else if (iov_iter_alignment(iter) & mem_align_mask) {
return -EINVAL;
+ }
/*
* Move page array up in the allocated memory for the bio vecs as far as
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-07 12:21 UTC|newest]
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2026-09-07 12:21 David Howells [this message]
2026-09-09 6:28 ` [PATCH v3] block: Fix start and length check added to iov_iter_extract_bvecs() Christoph Hellwig
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