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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
	Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>,
	Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>,
	target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] iscsi-target: Don't use stack buffer for scatterlist
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 11:19:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq18t4o5cgh.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180823203626.15108-1-labbott@redhat.com> (Laura Abbott's message of "Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:36:26 -0700")


> Fedora got a bug report of a crash with iSCSI:
>
> kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:143!
> ...
> RIP: 0010:iscsit_do_crypto_hash_buf+0x154/0x180 [iscsi_target_mod]
> ...
>  Call Trace:
>   ? iscsi_target_tx_thread+0x200/0x200 [iscsi_target_mod]
>   iscsit_get_rx_pdu+0x4cd/0xa90 [iscsi_target_mod]
>   ? native_sched_clock+0x3e/0xa0
>   ? iscsi_target_tx_thread+0x200/0x200 [iscsi_target_mod]
>   iscsi_target_rx_thread+0x81/0xf0 [iscsi_target_mod]
>   kthread+0x120/0x140
>   ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
>   ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
>
> This is a BUG_ON for using a stack buffer with a scatterlist.  There
> are two cases that trigger this bug. Switch to using a dynamically
> allocated buffer for one case and do not assign a NULL buffer in
> another case.

Mike: Please review. Thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
	Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>,
	Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>,
	target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] iscsi-target: Don't use stack buffer for scatterlist
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:19:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq18t4o5cgh.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180823203626.15108-1-labbott@redhat.com> (Laura Abbott's message of "Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:36:26 -0700")


> Fedora got a bug report of a crash with iSCSI:
>
> kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:143!
> ...
> RIP: 0010:iscsit_do_crypto_hash_buf+0x154/0x180 [iscsi_target_mod]
> ...
>  Call Trace:
>   ? iscsi_target_tx_thread+0x200/0x200 [iscsi_target_mod]
>   iscsit_get_rx_pdu+0x4cd/0xa90 [iscsi_target_mod]
>   ? native_sched_clock+0x3e/0xa0
>   ? iscsi_target_tx_thread+0x200/0x200 [iscsi_target_mod]
>   iscsi_target_rx_thread+0x81/0xf0 [iscsi_target_mod]
>   kthread+0x120/0x140
>   ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
>   ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
>
> This is a BUG_ON for using a stack buffer with a scatterlist.  There
> are two cases that trigger this bug. Switch to using a dynamically
> allocated buffer for one case and do not assign a NULL buffer in
> another case.

Mike: Please review. Thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-30 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-23 20:36 [PATCHv2] iscsi-target: Don't use stack buffer for scatterlist Laura Abbott
2018-08-23 20:36 ` Laura Abbott
2018-08-30 11:19 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2018-08-30 11:19   ` Martin K. Petersen

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