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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/scsi/sg.c, branch v4.6-rc3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>sg: fix dxferp in from_to case</title>
<updated>2016-03-10T01:41:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Douglas Gilbert</name>
<email>dgilbert@interlog.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-03T05:31:29+00:00</published>
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One of the strange things that the original sg driver did was let the
user provide both a data-out buffer (it followed the sg_header+cdb)
_and_ specify a reply length greater than zero. What happened was that
the user data-out buffer was copied into some kernel buffers and then
the mid level was told a read type operation would take place with the
data from the device overwriting the same kernel buffers. The user would
then read those kernel buffers back into the user space.

From what I can tell, the above action was broken by commit fad7f01e61bf
("sg: set dxferp to NULL for READ with the older SG interface") in 2008
and syzkaller found that out recently.

Make sure that a user space pointer is passed through when data follows
the sg_header structure and command.  Fix the abnormal case when a
non-zero reply_len is also given.

Fixes: fad7f01e61bf737fe8a3740d803f000db57ecac6
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; #v2.6.28+
Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ewan Milne &lt;emilne@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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One of the strange things that the original sg driver did was let the
user provide both a data-out buffer (it followed the sg_header+cdb)
_and_ specify a reply length greater than zero. What happened was that
the user data-out buffer was copied into some kernel buffers and then
the mid level was told a read type operation would take place with the
data from the device overwriting the same kernel buffers. The user would
then read those kernel buffers back into the user space.

From what I can tell, the above action was broken by commit fad7f01e61bf
("sg: set dxferp to NULL for READ with the older SG interface") in 2008
and syzkaller found that out recently.

Make sure that a user space pointer is passed through when data follows
the sg_header structure and command.  Fix the abnormal case when a
non-zero reply_len is also given.

Fixes: fad7f01e61bf737fe8a3740d803f000db57ecac6
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; #v2.6.28+
Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ewan Milne &lt;emilne@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drivers/scsi/sg.c: mark VMA as VM_IO to prevent migration</title>
<updated>2016-02-03T16:28:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-03T00:57:35+00:00</published>
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Reduced testcase:

    #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
    #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
    #include &lt;numaif.h&gt;

    #define SIZE 0x2000

    int main()
    {
        int fd;
        void *p;

        fd = open("/dev/sg0", O_RDWR);
        p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_LOCKED, fd, 0);
        mbind(p, SIZE, 0, NULL, 0, MPOL_MF_MOVE);
        return 0;
    }

We shouldn't try to migrate pages in sg VMA as we don't have a way to
update Sg_scatter_hold::pages accordingly from mm core.

Let's mark the VMA as VM_IO to indicate to mm core that the VMA is not
migratable.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Doug Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Shiraz Hashim &lt;shashim@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: syzkaller &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Cc: Kostya Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Reduced testcase:

    #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
    #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
    #include &lt;numaif.h&gt;

    #define SIZE 0x2000

    int main()
    {
        int fd;
        void *p;

        fd = open("/dev/sg0", O_RDWR);
        p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_LOCKED, fd, 0);
        mbind(p, SIZE, 0, NULL, 0, MPOL_MF_MOVE);
        return 0;
    }

We shouldn't try to migrate pages in sg VMA as we don't have a way to
update Sg_scatter_hold::pages accordingly from mm core.

Let's mark the VMA as VM_IO to indicate to mm core that the VMA is not
migratable.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Doug Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Shiraz Hashim &lt;shashim@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: syzkaller &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Cc: Kostya Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sg: Fix double-free when drives detach during SG_IO</title>
<updated>2015-11-03T04:51:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Calvin Owens</name>
<email>calvinowens@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-30T23:57:00+00:00</published>
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In sg_common_write(), we free the block request and return -ENODEV if
the device is detached in the middle of the SG_IO ioctl().

Unfortunately, sg_finish_rem_req() also tries to free srp-&gt;rq, so we
end up freeing rq-&gt;cmd in the already free rq object, and then free
the object itself out from under the current user.

This ends up corrupting random memory via the list_head on the rq
object. The most common crash trace I saw is this:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at block/blk-core.c:1420!
  Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff81281eab&gt;] blk_put_request+0x5b/0x80
  [&lt;ffffffffa0069e5b&gt;] sg_finish_rem_req+0x6b/0x120 [sg]
  [&lt;ffffffffa006bcb9&gt;] sg_common_write.isra.14+0x459/0x5a0 [sg]
  [&lt;ffffffff8125b328&gt;] ? selinux_file_alloc_security+0x48/0x70
  [&lt;ffffffffa006bf95&gt;] sg_new_write.isra.17+0x195/0x2d0 [sg]
  [&lt;ffffffffa006cef4&gt;] sg_ioctl+0x644/0xdb0 [sg]
  [&lt;ffffffff81170f80&gt;] do_vfs_ioctl+0x90/0x520
  [&lt;ffffffff81258967&gt;] ? file_has_perm+0x97/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff811714a1&gt;] SyS_ioctl+0x91/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff81602afb&gt;] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
    RIP [&lt;ffffffff81281e04&gt;] __blk_put_request+0x154/0x1a0

The solution is straightforward: just set srp-&gt;rq to NULL in the
failure branch so that sg_finish_rem_req() doesn't attempt to re-free
it.

Additionally, since sg_rq_end_io() will never be called on the object
when this happens, we need to free memory backing -&gt;cmd if it isn't
embedded in the object itself.

KASAN was extremely helpful in finding the root cause of this bug.

Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens &lt;calvinowens@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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In sg_common_write(), we free the block request and return -ENODEV if
the device is detached in the middle of the SG_IO ioctl().

Unfortunately, sg_finish_rem_req() also tries to free srp-&gt;rq, so we
end up freeing rq-&gt;cmd in the already free rq object, and then free
the object itself out from under the current user.

This ends up corrupting random memory via the list_head on the rq
object. The most common crash trace I saw is this:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at block/blk-core.c:1420!
  Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff81281eab&gt;] blk_put_request+0x5b/0x80
  [&lt;ffffffffa0069e5b&gt;] sg_finish_rem_req+0x6b/0x120 [sg]
  [&lt;ffffffffa006bcb9&gt;] sg_common_write.isra.14+0x459/0x5a0 [sg]
  [&lt;ffffffff8125b328&gt;] ? selinux_file_alloc_security+0x48/0x70
  [&lt;ffffffffa006bf95&gt;] sg_new_write.isra.17+0x195/0x2d0 [sg]
  [&lt;ffffffffa006cef4&gt;] sg_ioctl+0x644/0xdb0 [sg]
  [&lt;ffffffff81170f80&gt;] do_vfs_ioctl+0x90/0x520
  [&lt;ffffffff81258967&gt;] ? file_has_perm+0x97/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff811714a1&gt;] SyS_ioctl+0x91/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff81602afb&gt;] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
    RIP [&lt;ffffffff81281e04&gt;] __blk_put_request+0x154/0x1a0

The solution is straightforward: just set srp-&gt;rq to NULL in the
failure branch so that sg_finish_rem_req() doesn't attempt to re-free
it.

Additionally, since sg_rq_end_io() will never be called on the object
when this happens, we need to free memory backing -&gt;cmd if it isn't
embedded in the object itself.

KASAN was extremely helpful in finding the root cause of this bug.

Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens &lt;calvinowens@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sg_start_req(): use import_iovec()</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T02:27:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-22T00:25:30+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sg_start_req(): make sure that there's not too many elements in iovec</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T02:27:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-22T00:08:18+00:00</published>
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unfortunately, allowing an arbitrary 16bit value means a possibility of
overflow in the calculation of total number of pages in bio_map_user_iov() -
we rely on there being no more than PAGE_SIZE members of sum in the
first loop there.  If that sum wraps around, we end up allocating
too small array of pointers to pages and it's easy to overflow it in
the second loop.

X-Coverup: TINC (and there's no lumber cartel either)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # way, way back
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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unfortunately, allowing an arbitrary 16bit value means a possibility of
overflow in the calculation of total number of pages in bio_map_user_iov() -
we rely on there being no more than PAGE_SIZE members of sum in the
first loop there.  If that sum wraps around, we end up allocating
too small array of pointers to pages and it's easy to overflow it in
the second loop.

X-Coverup: TINC (and there's no lumber cartel either)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # way, way back
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'iocb' into for-next</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T02:24:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-12T02:24:41+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>fs: move struct kiocb to fs.h</title>
<updated>2015-03-26T00:28:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-22T16:58:50+00:00</published>
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struct kiocb now is a generic I/O container, so move it to fs.h.
Also do a #include diet for aio.h while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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struct kiocb now is a generic I/O container, so move it to fs.h.
Also do a #include diet for aio.h while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2015-02-22T03:16:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-22T03:16:42+00:00</published>
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Pull misc SCSI patches from James Bottomley:
 "This is a short patch set representing a couple of left overs from the
  merge window (debug removal and MAINTAINER changes).

  Plus one merge window regression (the local workqueue for hpsa) and a
  set of bug fixes for several issues (two for scsi-mq and the rest an
  assortment of long standing stuff, all cc'd to stable)"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
  sg: fix EWOULDBLOCK errors with scsi-mq
  sg: fix unkillable I/O wait deadlock with scsi-mq
  sg: fix read() error reporting
  wd719x: add missing .module to wd719x_template
  hpsa: correct compiler warnings introduced by hpsa-add-local-workqueue patch
  fixed invalid assignment of 64bit mask to host dma_boundary for scatter gather segment boundary limit.
  fcoe: Transition maintainership to Vasu
  am53c974: remove left-over debugging code
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Pull misc SCSI patches from James Bottomley:
 "This is a short patch set representing a couple of left overs from the
  merge window (debug removal and MAINTAINER changes).

  Plus one merge window regression (the local workqueue for hpsa) and a
  set of bug fixes for several issues (two for scsi-mq and the rest an
  assortment of long standing stuff, all cc'd to stable)"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
  sg: fix EWOULDBLOCK errors with scsi-mq
  sg: fix unkillable I/O wait deadlock with scsi-mq
  sg: fix read() error reporting
  wd719x: add missing .module to wd719x_template
  hpsa: correct compiler warnings introduced by hpsa-add-local-workqueue patch
  fixed invalid assignment of 64bit mask to host dma_boundary for scatter gather segment boundary limit.
  fcoe: Transition maintainership to Vasu
  am53c974: remove left-over debugging code
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<title>sg: fix EWOULDBLOCK errors with scsi-mq</title>
<updated>2015-02-17T14:57:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Battersby</name>
<email>tonyb@cybernetics.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-13T17:10:58+00:00</published>
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With scsi-mq enabled, userspace programs can get unexpected EWOULDBLOCK
(a.k.a. EAGAIN) errors when submitting commands to the SCSI generic
driver.  Fix by calling blk_get_request() with GFP_KERNEL instead of
GFP_ATOMIC.

Note: to avoid introducing a potential deadlock, this patch should be
applied after the patch titled "sg: fix unkillable I/O wait deadlock
with scsi-mq".

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.17+
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby &lt;tonyb@cybernetics.com&gt;
Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Tested-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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With scsi-mq enabled, userspace programs can get unexpected EWOULDBLOCK
(a.k.a. EAGAIN) errors when submitting commands to the SCSI generic
driver.  Fix by calling blk_get_request() with GFP_KERNEL instead of
GFP_ATOMIC.

Note: to avoid introducing a potential deadlock, this patch should be
applied after the patch titled "sg: fix unkillable I/O wait deadlock
with scsi-mq".

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.17+
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby &lt;tonyb@cybernetics.com&gt;
Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Tested-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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<title>sg: fix unkillable I/O wait deadlock with scsi-mq</title>
<updated>2015-02-17T14:55:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Battersby</name>
<email>tonyb@cybernetics.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-13T17:09:44+00:00</published>
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When using the write()/read() interface for submitting commands, the
SCSI generic driver does not call blk_put_request() on a completed SCSI
command until userspace calls read() to get the command completion.
Since scsi-mq uses a fixed number of preallocated requests, this makes
it possible for userspace to exhaust the entire preallocated supply of
requests.  For places in the kernel that call blk_get_request() with
GFP_KERNEL, this can cause the calling process to deadlock in a
permanent unkillable I/O wait in blk_get_request() -&gt; ... -&gt; bt_get().
For places in the kernel that call blk_get_request() with GFP_ATOMIC,
this can cause blk_get_request() always to return -EWOULDBLOCK.  Note
that these problems happen only if scsi-mq is enabled.  Prevent the
problems by calling blk_put_request() as soon as the SCSI command
completes instead of waiting for userspace to call read().

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.17+
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby &lt;tonyb@cybernetics.com&gt;
Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Tested-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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When using the write()/read() interface for submitting commands, the
SCSI generic driver does not call blk_put_request() on a completed SCSI
command until userspace calls read() to get the command completion.
Since scsi-mq uses a fixed number of preallocated requests, this makes
it possible for userspace to exhaust the entire preallocated supply of
requests.  For places in the kernel that call blk_get_request() with
GFP_KERNEL, this can cause the calling process to deadlock in a
permanent unkillable I/O wait in blk_get_request() -&gt; ... -&gt; bt_get().
For places in the kernel that call blk_get_request() with GFP_ATOMIC,
this can cause blk_get_request() always to return -EWOULDBLOCK.  Note
that these problems happen only if scsi-mq is enabled.  Prevent the
problems by calling blk_put_request() as soon as the SCSI command
completes instead of waiting for userspace to call read().

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.17+
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby &lt;tonyb@cybernetics.com&gt;
Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Tested-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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