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From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Bart Van Assche" <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 21/57] scsi: bnx2i: Enable lock context analysis
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:29:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260730232942.3A7851F000E9@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0198362bf861b804f2f02e3be6f3d5e16c6238e9.1785451174.git.bvanassche@acm.org>

Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 3 potential issue(s) to consider:

Pre-existing issues:
- [High] bnx2i_cleanup_task() calls wait_for_completion_timeout() while libiscsi holds session->frwd_lock, causing a scheduling while atomic bug.
- [High] Unbounded copy in bnx2i_process_reject_mesg allows a malicious iSCSI target to cause a kernel heap buffer overflow.
- [High] Missing bounds check in bnx2i_process_login_resp and bnx2i_process_text_resp leads to out-of-bounds writes of padding zeros.
--

--- Patch [21]: [PATCH v3 21/57] scsi: bnx2i: Enable lock context analysis ---
commit ba1d4ba847bd9f8639c38b0ed041d30d68619de6
Author: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>

scsi: bnx2i: Enable lock context analysis

Document locking requirements with __must_hold(). Use
__assume_ctx_lock() to inform the compiler about aliases for
synchronization objects.

> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_hwi.c b/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_hwi.c
> index 4fb68ec8e9b08..5d927880d2971 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_hwi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_hwi.c
[ ... ]
> @@ -1443,6 +1444,7 @@ static int bnx2i_process_login_resp(struct iscsi_session *session,
>  
>  	login = (struct bnx2i_login_response *) cqe;
>  	spin_lock(&session->back_lock);
> +	__assume_ctx_lock(&conn->session->back_lock);
>  	task = iscsi_itt_to_task(conn,
>  				 login->itt & ISCSI_LOGIN_RESPONSE_INDEX);
>  	if (!task)

[Severity: High]
This isn't a bug introduced by this patch, but there appears to be a missing
bounds check when processing login responses.

In bnx2i_process_login_resp(), the payload length is added to resp_buf to
compute resp_wr_ptr:

	bnx2i_conn->gen_pdu.resp_wr_ptr =
					bnx2i_conn->gen_pdu.resp_buf + pld_len;

Could an untrusted iSCSI target send an oversized LOGIN response PDU where
pld_len exceeds the 8192 byte capacity of gen_pdu.resp_buf? If so, could this
loop write out-of-bounds padding zeros?

	if (pad_len) {
		int i = 0;
		for (i = 0; i < pad_len; i++) {
			bnx2i_conn->gen_pdu.resp_wr_ptr[0] = 0;
			bnx2i_conn->gen_pdu.resp_wr_ptr++;
		}
	}

[ ... ]
> @@ -1511,6 +1513,7 @@ static int bnx2i_process_text_resp(struct iscsi_session *session,
>  
>  	text = (struct bnx2i_text_response *) cqe;
>  	spin_lock(&session->back_lock);
> +	__assume_ctx_lock(&conn->session->back_lock);
>  	task = iscsi_itt_to_task(conn, text->itt & ISCSI_LOGIN_RESPONSE_INDEX);
>  	if (!task)
>  		goto done;

[Severity: High]
This is a pre-existing issue, but similar to the login response processing,
there seems to be a missing bounds check here in bnx2i_process_text_resp().

If the payload length exceeds the buffer size, could the padding logic write
past the buffer?

	bnx2i_conn->gen_pdu.resp_wr_ptr = bnx2i_conn->gen_pdu.resp_buf +
					  pld_len;
[ ... ]
	if (pad_len) {
		int i = 0;
		for (i = 0; i < pad_len; i++) {
			bnx2i_conn->gen_pdu.resp_wr_ptr[0] = 0;
			bnx2i_conn->gen_pdu.resp_wr_ptr++;
		}
	}

[ ... ]
> @@ -1803,6 +1810,7 @@ static void bnx2i_process_reject_mesg(struct iscsi_session *session,
>  		bnx2i_unsol_pdu_adjust_rq(bnx2i_conn);
>  
>  	spin_lock(&session->back_lock);
> +	__assume_ctx_lock(&conn->session->back_lock);
>  	hdr = (struct iscsi_reject *) &bnx2i_conn->gen_pdu.resp_hdr;
>  	memset(hdr, 0, sizeof(struct iscsi_hdr));
>  	hdr->opcode = reject->op_code;

[Severity: High]
This is a pre-existing issue, but is there a risk of a kernel heap buffer
overflow in bnx2i_process_reject_mesg()?

When receiving an iSCSI REJECT message, the CQE's data_length is passed
directly to bnx2i_get_rq_buf():

	if (reject->data_length) {
		bnx2i_get_rq_buf(bnx2i_conn, conn->data, reject->data_length);
		bnx2i_put_rq_buf(bnx2i_conn, 1);
	}

In bnx2i_get_rq_buf(), this executes a memcpy into the statically sized
conn->data buffer:

	memcpy(ptr, (u8 *) bnx2i_conn->ep->qp.rq_cons_qe, len);

If an untrusted iSCSI target sends an oversized REJECT PDU, will this write
past the bounds of the 8192 byte buffer?

> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_iscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_iscsi.c
> index 6c80e5b514fda..c868eada72c3e 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_iscsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_iscsi.c
> @@ -1154,6 +1154,7 @@ static void bnx2i_cpy_scsi_cdb(struct scsi_cmnd *sc, struct bnx2i_cmd *cmd)
>  }
>  
>  static void bnx2i_cleanup_task(struct iscsi_task *task)
> +	__must_hold(&task->conn->session->back_lock)
>  {
>  	struct iscsi_conn *conn = task->conn;
>  	struct bnx2i_conn *bnx2i_conn = conn->dd_data;

[Severity: High]
This isn't a bug introduced by this patch, but does bnx2i_cleanup_task() sleep
while atomic?

During error handling, such as in iscsi_conn_stop() or iscsi_eh_device_reset(),
libiscsi acquires the session->frwd_lock and calls fail_scsi_tasks().

If fail_scsi_tasks() drops the task reference count to 0 via
__iscsi_put_task(), it synchronously invokes iscsi_free_task(), which calls
bnx2i_cleanup_task().

While bnx2i_cleanup_task() drops the back_lock, the implicitly held frwd_lock
remains locked when it waits for the completion:

	if (task->state == ISCSI_TASK_ABRT_TMF) {
		bnx2i_send_cmd_cleanup_req(hba, task->dd_data);

		spin_unlock_bh(&conn->session->back_lock);
		wait_for_completion_timeout(&bnx2i_conn->cmd_cleanup_cmpl,
				msecs_to_jiffies(ISCSI_CMD_CLEANUP_TIMEOUT));
		spin_lock_bh(&conn->session->back_lock);
	}

Could this cause a scheduling while atomic bug when wait_for_completion_timeout
is called with frwd_lock still held?

-- 
Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/cover.1785451174.git.bvanassche@acm.org?part=21

  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-30 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-30 22:44 [PATCH v3 00/57] Enable lock context analysis for the SCSI subsystem Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 01/57] PCI: Convert to_pci_dev() into an inline function Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 02/57] scsi: scsi_debug: Prepare for enabling lock context analysis Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:01   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 03/57] scsi: sg: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 04/57] scsi: st: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 05/57] scsi: BusLogic: Introduce two local variables Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:01   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 06/57] scsi: BusLogic: Prepare for enabling lock context analysis Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:06   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 07/57] scsi: NCR5380: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 08/57] scsi: aacraid: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:04   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 09/57] scsi: aic7xxx: Enable " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 10/57] scsi: aha152x: Prepare for enabling " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:18   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 11/57] scsi: aic7xxx: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 12/57] scsi: aic94xx: Enable " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 13/57] scsi: arcmsr: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 14/57] scsi: arm: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 15/57] scsi: be2iscsi: Prepare for enabling " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:04   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 16/57] scsi: be2iscsi: Enable " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 17/57] scsi: cxgbi: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 18/57] scsi: bfa: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 19/57] scsi: bnx2fc: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:01   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 20/57] scsi: bnx2i: Introduce a local variable Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 21/57] scsi: bnx2i: Enable lock context analysis Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:29   ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 22/57] scsi: csiostor: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:19   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 23/57] scsi: elx: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 24/57] scsi: esas2r: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 25/57] scsi: fcoe: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 26/57] scsi: fnic: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:11   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 27/57] scsi: hisi_sas: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:02   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 28/57] scsi: hpsa: Prepare for enabling " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:27   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 29/57] scsi: ibmvscsi: Enable " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 30/57] scsi: ibmvscsi_tgt: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:27   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 31/57] scsi: ipr: Prepare for enabling " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:15   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 32/57] scsi: ips: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:15   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 33/57] scsi: isci: Enable " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 34/57] scsi: libfc: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:19   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 35/57] scsi: libiscsi: Prepare for enabling " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:17   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 36/57] scsi: libsas: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 37/57] scsi: libsas: Enable " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 38/57] scsi: lpfc: Prepare for enabling " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:09   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 39/57] scsi: megaraid_sas: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:15   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 40/57] scsi: megaraid: Enable " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:15   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 41/57] scsi: mpt3sas: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 42/57] scsi: mvsas: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:18   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 43/57] scsi: pcmcia: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 44/57] scsi: pm8001: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:31   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 45/57] scsi: qedf: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 46/57] scsi: qedi: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:17   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 47/57] scsi: qla1280: Prepare for enabling " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:19   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 48/57] scsi: qla2xxx: Enable " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 49/57] scsi: qla4xxx: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:25   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 50/57] scsi: ufs: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:19   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 51/57] scsi: iSCSI transport: Prepare for enabling " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:23   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 52/57] scsi: smartpqi: Enable " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:22   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 53/57] scsi: snic: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 54/57] scsi: sym53c8xx_2: " Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:27   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 55/57] scsi: core: Pass the SCSI host pointer directly Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:22   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 56/57] scsi: core: Enable lock context analysis Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:36   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 22:45 ` [PATCH v3 57/57] scsi: core: Protect host state changes with the host lock Bart Van Assche
2026-07-30 23:32   ` sashiko-bot

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