Re: [050/107] block: check for proper length of iov entries earlierin blk_rq_map_user_iov()

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Nov 04 2011 - 13:14:49 EST


On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 03:24:16PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 15:14 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > 2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 5478755616ae2ef1ce144dded589b62b2a50d575 upstream.
> >
> > commit 9284bcf checks for proper length of iov entries in
> > blk_rq_map_user_iov(). But if the map is unaligned, kernel
> > will break out the loop without checking for the proper length.
> > So we need to check the proper length before the unalign check.
>
> This will catch an unaligned zero-length entry. But there's still no
> check for zero-length iov entries *after* the unaligned entry.
>
> [...]
> > --- a/block/blk-map.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-map.c
> > @@ -201,12 +201,13 @@ int blk_rq_map_user_iov(struct request_q
> > for (i = 0; i < iov_count; i++) {
> > unsigned long uaddr = (unsigned long)iov[i].iov_base;
> >
> > + if (!iov[i].iov_len)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > if (uaddr & queue_dma_alignment(q)) {
> > unaligned = 1;
> > break;
>
> I think the correct fix is just to remove the 'break'.

Then the fix should go upstream first :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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