From: Ranjan Kumar <ranjan.kumar@broadcom.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, martin.petersen@oracle.com
Cc: sathya.prakash@broadcom.com, chandrakanth.patil@broadcom.com,
dlemoal@kernel.org, david.laight.linux@gmail.com,
Ranjan Kumar <ranjan.kumar@broadcom.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Mira Limbeck <m.limbeck@proxmox.com>,
Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4] mpt3sas: Limit NVMe request size to 2 MiB
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:38:11 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260414110811.85156-1-ranjan.kumar@broadcom.com> (raw)
The HBA firmware reports NVMe MDTS values based on the underlying drive
capability. However, because the driver allocates a fixed 4K buffer for
the PRP list, accommodating at most 512 entries, the driver supports a
maximum I/O transfer size of 2 MiB.
Limit max_hw_sectors to the smaller of the reported MDTS and the
2 MiB driver limit to prevent issuing oversized I/O that may lead
to a kernel oops.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 9b8b84879d4a ("block: Increase BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS_CAP")
Reported-by: Mira Limbeck <m.limbeck@proxmox.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/291f78bf-4b4a-40dd-867d-053b36c564b3@proxmox.com
Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9b8b84879d4a
Suggested-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ranjan Kumar <ranjan.kumar@broadcom.com>
---
drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
index 6ff788557294..12caffeed3a0 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
@@ -2738,8 +2738,20 @@ scsih_sdev_configure(struct scsi_device *sdev, struct queue_limits *lim)
pcie_device->enclosure_level,
pcie_device->connector_name);
+ /*
+ * The HBA firmware passes the NVMe drive's MDTS
+ * (Maximum Data Transfer Size) up to the driver. However,
+ * the driver hardcodes a 4K buffer size for the PRP list,
+ * accommodating at most 512 entries. This strictly limits
+ * the maximum supported NVMe I/O transfer to 2 MiB.
+ *
+ * Cap max_hw_sectors to the smaller of the drive's reported
+ * MDTS or the 2 MiB driver limit to prevent kernel oopses.
+ */
+ lim->max_hw_sectors = SZ_2M >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
if (pcie_device->nvme_mdts)
- lim->max_hw_sectors = pcie_device->nvme_mdts / 512;
+ lim->max_hw_sectors = min(lim->max_hw_sectors,
+ pcie_device->nvme_mdts >> SECTOR_SHIFT);
pcie_device_put(pcie_device);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->pcie_device_lock, flags);
--
2.47.3
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-14 11:15 UTC|newest]
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2026-04-14 11:08 Ranjan Kumar [this message]
2026-04-15 17:43 ` [PATCH v4] mpt3sas: Limit NVMe request size to 2 MiB Mira Limbeck
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