[PATCH 01/11] nvme: fix kernel memory corruption with short INQUIRY buffers

[axboe@fb.com (Jens Axboe)]

On 05/08/2015 12:00 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> If userspace asks for an INQUIRY buffer smaller than 36 bytes, the SCSI
> translation layer will happily write past the end of the INQUIRY buffer
> allocation.
>
> This is fairly easily reproducible by running the libiscsi test
> suite and then starting an xfstests run.
>
> Fixes: 4f1982 ("NVMe: Update SCSI Inquiry VPD 83h translation")
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> ---
>   drivers/block/nvme-scsi.c | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/nvme-scsi.c b/drivers/block/nvme-scsi.c
> index 6b736b0..aea2498 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/nvme-scsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/nvme-scsi.c
> @@ -2256,7 +2256,8 @@ static int nvme_trans_inquiry(struct nvme_ns *ns, struct sg_io_hdr *hdr,
>   	page_code = GET_INQ_PAGE_CODE(cmd);
>   	alloc_len = GET_INQ_ALLOC_LENGTH(cmd);
>
> -	inq_response = kmalloc(alloc_len, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	inq_response = kmalloc(max(alloc_len, STANDARD_INQUIRY_LENGTH),
> +				GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (inq_response == NULL) {
>   		res = -ENOMEM;
>   		goto out_mem;

Applied for 4.1.

-- 
Jens Axboe