From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cathy Avery Subject: [PATCH v2] [hv] storvsc: Payload buffer incorrectly sized for 32 bit kernels. Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 08:46:33 -0500 Message-ID: <1479908793-19872-1-git-send-email-cavery@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Sender: "devel" To: kys@microsoft.com, haiyangz@microsoft.com, jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On a 32 bit kernel sizeof(void *) is not 64 bits as hv_mpb_array requires. Also the buffer needs to be cleared or the upper bytes will contain junk. Suggested-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov Signed-off-by: Cathy Avery ChangeLog: v1) Initial submission v2) Remove memset and replace kmalloc with kzalloc. --- drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c index 8ccfc9e..05526b7 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c @@ -1495,9 +1495,9 @@ static int storvsc_queuecommand(struct Scsi_Host *host, struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd) if (sg_count) { if (sg_count > MAX_PAGE_BUFFER_COUNT) { - payload_sz = (sg_count * sizeof(void *) + + payload_sz = (sg_count * sizeof(u64) + sizeof(struct vmbus_packet_mpb_array)); - payload = kmalloc(payload_sz, GFP_ATOMIC); + payload = kzalloc(payload_sz, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!payload) return SCSI_MLQUEUE_DEVICE_BUSY; } -- 2.5.0