Re: [PATCH v3] vdpa/mlx5: Fix buffer length in create_direct_keys()

[Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>]

Am 07.07.26 um 09:17 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
> Am 06.07.26 um 16:15 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
>> We have seen in our CI the following KASAN message:
>> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in cmd_exec+0x550/0xca0 [mlx5_core]
>> Read of size 272 at addr 0000000176795020 by task qemu-system-s39/82764
>> [...]
>> [<000011388ab3a7a0>] cmd_exec+0x550/0xca0 [mlx5_core]
>> [<000011388ab3b61c>] mlx5_cmd_exec_cb+0x25c/0x4f0 [mlx5_core]
>> [<000011388b21e82e>] mlx5_vdpa_exec_async_cmds+0x22e/0x5e0 [mlx5_vdpa]
>> [<000011388b21fd44>] create_direct_keys+0x954/0xef0 [mlx5_vdpa]
>> [...]
>> The buggy address is located 4128 bytes inside of
>> allocated 4384-byte region [0000000176794000, 0000000176795120)
>>
>> So in essence we read 16 bytes beyond 4384-byte allocation.
>> create_direct_keys calculates the pointer and length for in and out
>> buffers.
>> The size calculation for in includes the entire structure
>> size (out + in + mtt[]) but the pointer passed to cmd_exec points only
>> to the 'in' field, skipping the 'out' field.
>>
>> This causes mlx5_copy_to_msg() to read beyond the allocated buffer
>> by sizeof(out) bytes when copying command data.
>>
>> Properly calculate the input size to match the pointer and allocation size.
>>
>> Fixes: 0071b138d44a ("vdpa/mlx5: Create direct MKEYs in parallel")
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> 
> Dragos,
> 
> With this fix our nighly CI did not result in a kasan message. As I only have
> limited test coverage a full regression on your side might still be the right
> thing to do.

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