From: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
To: target-devel <target-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
lf-virt <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] vhost/scsi: Fix incorrect usage of get_user_pages_fast write parameter
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:07:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1382724436-28478-1-git-send-email-nab@linux-iscsi.org> (raw)
From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch addresses a long-standing bug where the get_user_pages_fast()
write parameter used for setting the underlying page table entry permission
bits was incorrectly set to write=1 for data_direction=DMA_TO_DEVICE, and
passed into get_user_pages_fast() via vhost_scsi_map_iov_to_sgl().
However, this parameter is intended to signal WRITEs to pinned userspace
PTEs for the virtio-scsi DMA_FROM_DEVICE -> READ payload case, and *not*
for the virtio-scsi DMA_TO_DEVICE -> WRITE payload case.
This bug would manifest itself as random process segmentation faults on
KVM host after repeated vhost starts + stops and/or with lots of vhost
endpoints + LUNs.
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.6+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
---
drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
index ce5221f..e663921 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ vhost_scsi_handle_vq(struct vhost_scsi *vs, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
if (data_direction != DMA_NONE) {
ret = vhost_scsi_map_iov_to_sgl(cmd,
&vq->iov[data_first], data_num,
- data_direction == DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+ data_direction == DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
if (unlikely(ret)) {
vq_err(vq, "Failed to map iov to sgl\n");
goto err_free;
--
1.7.2.5
next reply other threads:[~2013-10-25 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-25 18:07 Nicholas A. Bellinger [this message]
2013-10-27 23:48 ` [PATCH] vhost/scsi: Fix incorrect usage of get_user_pages_fast write parameter Asias He
2013-10-28 12:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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