# \[PATCH v4 1/2\] block: Fix a buffer overrun in bio\_integrity\_split()

- From: Kent Overstreet \<hidden\>
- Date: 2012-10-15 20:18:29 
- List: linux-bcache
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-bcache/2012/10/3939747
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-bcache/2012/10/3939710/t.md

```text
bio_integrity_split() seemed to be confusing pointers and arrays -
bip_vec in bio_integrity_payload was an array appended to the end of the
payload, so the bio_vecs in struct bio_pair should have come after the
bio_integrity_payload they're for.

Fix it by making bip_vec a pointer to the inline vecs - a later patch is
going to make more use of this pointer.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <redacted>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: Martin K. Petersen <redacted>
---
 fs/bio-integrity.c  | 5 +++--
 include/linux/bio.h | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/bio-integrity.c b/fs/bio-integrity.c
index a3f28f3..94fa1c5 100644
--- a/fs/bio-integrity.c
+++ b/fs/bio-integrity.c
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ struct bio_integrity_payload *bio_integrity_alloc(struct bio *bio,
 
 	bip->bip_slab = idx;
 	bip->bip_bio = bio;
+	bip->bip_vec = bip->bip_inline_vecs;
 	bio->bi_integrity = bip;
 
 	return bip;
@@ -697,8 +698,8 @@ void bio_integrity_split(struct bio *bio, struct bio_pair *bp, int sectors)
 	bp->iv1 = bip->bip_vec[0];
 	bp->iv2 = bip->bip_vec[0];
 
-	bp->bip1.bip_vec[0] = bp->iv1;
-	bp->bip2.bip_vec[0] = bp->iv2;
+	bp->bip1.bip_vec = &bp->iv1;
+	bp->bip2.bip_vec = &bp->iv2;
 
 	bp->iv1.bv_len = sectors * bi->tuple_size;
 	bp->iv2.bv_offset += sectors * bi->tuple_size;
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index b31036f..81004fd 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -182,7 +182,9 @@ struct bio_integrity_payload {
 	unsigned short		bip_idx;	/* current bip_vec index */
 
 	struct work_struct	bip_work;	/* I/O completion */
-	struct bio_vec		bip_vec[0];	/* embedded bvec array */
+
+	struct bio_vec		*bip_vec;
+	struct bio_vec		bip_inline_vecs[0];/* embedded bvec array */
 };
 #endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY */
 
-- 
1.7.12
```
