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From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
To: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, nbd@other.debian.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	cascardo@canonical.com
Subject: [PATCH] nbd: allocate sufficient space for NBD_CMD_STATUS
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:02:40 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200618210240.157566-2-cascardo@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200618210240.157566-1-cascardo@canonical.com>

The nest attribute NBD_ATTR_DEVICE_LIST was not accounted for when
allocating the message, resulting in -EMSGSIZE.

As __alloc_skb aligns size requests to SMP_CACHE_BYTES and SLUB will end up
allocating more than requested, this can hardly be reproduced on most
setups.

However, I managed to test this on a 32-bit x86 with 15 entries, by loading
with nbds_max=15. It failed with -EMSGSIZE, while it worked with 14 or 16
entries.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/block/nbd.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 43cff01a5a67..19551d8ca355 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -2265,6 +2265,7 @@ static int nbd_genl_status(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	msg_size = nla_total_size(nla_attr_size(sizeof(u32)) +
 				  nla_attr_size(sizeof(u8)));
 	msg_size *= (index == -1) ? nbd_total_devices : 1;
+	msg_size += nla_total_size(0); /* for NBD_ATTR_DEVICE_LIST */
 
 	reply = genlmsg_new(msg_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!reply)
-- 
2.25.1


      reply	other threads:[~2020-06-18 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-18 21:02 [PATCH] nbd: allocate sufficient space for NBD_CMD_STATUS Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2020-06-18 21:02 ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo [this message]

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