[PATCH 5.15 232/935] scsi: core: Fill in DMA padding bytes in scsi_alloc_sgtables()

From
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
2026-09-12 18:21:43
Also in
linux-patches
Reply to
Greg Kroah-Hartman, 2026-09-12
5.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Petr Vaganov <redacted>

commit 626147717bea776b61ed3631d2c26283760c4cc4 upstream.

During fuzz testing, the following issue was discovered:

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __dma_map_sg_attrs+0x217/0x310
 __dma_map_sg_attrs+0x217/0x310
 dma_map_sg_attrs+0x4a/0x70
 ata_qc_issue+0x9f8/0x1420
 __ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x1657/0x1740
 ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x79a/0x920
 scsi_queue_rq+0x4472/0x4f40
 blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x1cca/0x3ee0
 __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x458/0x630
 blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x15b/0x340
 __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0xe5/0x250
 __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x138/0x780
 blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x4bb/0x7e0
 blk_mq_sched_insert_request+0x2a7/0x4c0
 blk_execute_rq+0x497/0x8a0
 sg_io+0xbe0/0xe20
 scsi_ioctl+0x2b36/0x3c60
 sr_block_ioctl+0x319/0x440
 blkdev_ioctl+0x80f/0xd70
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x219/0x420
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xe0
 x64_sys_call+0x1d6c/0x3ad0
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

Uninit was created at:
 __alloc_pages+0x5c0/0xc80
 alloc_pages+0xe0e/0x1050
 blk_rq_map_user_iov+0x2b77/0x6100
 blk_rq_map_user_io+0x2fa/0x4d0
 sg_io+0xad6/0xe20
 scsi_ioctl+0x2b36/0x3c60
 sr_block_ioctl+0x319/0x440
 blkdev_ioctl+0x80f/0xd70
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x219/0x420
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xe0
 x64_sys_call+0x1d6c/0x3ad0
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

Bytes 14-15 of 16 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 16 starts at ffff88800cbdb000

When processing the last unaligned element of the scatterlist, it is
supplemented with missing bytes in the amount of pad_len.  These bytes
remain uninitialized, which leads to a problem.

Extend last_sg->length by pad_len first, then use sg_zero_buffer() to
zero those pad_len bytes.  sg_zero_buffer() uses sg_miter internally,
which correctly handles sg entries spanning multiple pages and padding
that crosses a page boundary.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Fixes: 40b01b9bbdf5 ("block: update bio according to DMA alignment padding")
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Petr Vaganov <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260628185229.37957-1-p.vaganov@ideco.ru (local)
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen (Oracle) <mkp@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Petr Vaganov <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index c8be41d8eb247..535c6033a71f7 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -1015,8 +1015,10 @@ blk_status_t scsi_alloc_sgtables(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd)
 	if (blk_rq_bytes(rq) & rq->q->dma_pad_mask) {
 		unsigned int pad_len =
 			(rq->q->dma_pad_mask & ~blk_rq_bytes(rq)) + 1;
+		unsigned int data_len = last_sg->length;
 
 		last_sg->length += pad_len;
+		sg_zero_buffer(last_sg, 1, pad_len, data_len);
 		cmd->extra_len += pad_len;
 	}
 
-- 
2.53.0


Thread (970 messages) 970 messages, 11 authors, last reply 2026-09-20
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread / next series-diff position
kprevious message in thread / previous series-diff position
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help