From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Vladimir Petrzhikovskii" <vladimir@dfb.sh>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux.dev,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"Eugenio Perez" <eperezma@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: Bound the KLM count of the user MR
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2026 19:31:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sashiko-outbox-205495@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261109-b4-mlx5-klm-v1-1-787b45145719@dfb.sh>
> create_user_mr() builds one indirect MKey that covers the whole vhost
> IOTLB. It fills each gap between two mappings with null KLMs, one per
> GiB, and never checks the total number of KLMs against the device
> limit, MLX5_CAP_GEN(log_max_klm_list_size).
>
> With a virtio-IOMMU the guest chooses the IOVAs: the VMM (QEMU)
> forwards each map the guest makes to the vhost-vDPA device. If the
> guest maps one page at IOVA 0 and one at IOVA 2^58, the driver needs
> more than 2^28 KLMs. create_indirect_key() computes the buffer size in
> an int, which overflows: the driver allocates 336 bytes, and
> fill_indir() then writes 16 bytes per KLM, 4 GiB in total, far past
> the end of the buffer.
>
> nnuls is an int, so a gap of 2^61 bytes or more is miscounted on every
> architecture, and on 32-bit the unsigned long num_klms wraps. The gap
> [ ... ]
> Fixes: 94abbccdf291 ("vdpa/mlx5: Add shared memory registration code")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Co-developed-by: Nikolai Kalinin <nikolai@kalinidze.me>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolai Kalinin <nikolai@kalinidze.me>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Petrzhikovskii <vladimir@dfb.sh>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues.
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