| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [ 099/218] SCSI: scsi: virtio-scsi: Fix address translation failure of HighMem pages used by sg list | Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:15:16 -0700 |
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3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Wang Sen <senwang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
commit 27e99ade81368e6fdda3212bff9345177cf9e57a upstream.
When using the commands below to write some data to a virtio-scsi LUN of the QEMU guest(32-bit) with 1G physical memory(qemu -m 1024), the qemu will crash.
# sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb (/dev/sdb is the virtio-scsi LUN.) # sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt # dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/file bs=1M count=1024
In current implementation, sg_set_buf is called to add buffers to sg list which is put into the virtqueue eventually. But if there are some HighMem pages in table->sgl you can not get virtual address by sg_virt. So, sg_virt(sg_elem) may return NULL value. This will cause QEMU exit when virtqueue_map_sg is called in QEMU because an invalid GPA is passed by virtqueue.
Two solutions are discussed here: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1207.3/00675.html
Finally, value assignment approach was adopted because:
Value assignment creates a well-formed scatterlist, because the termination marker in source sg_list has been set in blk_rq_map_sg(). The last entry of the source sg_list is just copied to the the last entry in destination list. Note that, for now, virtio_ring does not care about the form of the scatterlist and simply processes the first out_num + in_num consecutive elements of the sg[] array.
I have tested the patch on my workstation. QEMU would not crash any more.
Signed-off-by: Wang Sen <senwang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static void virtscsi_map_sgl(struct scat int i; for_each_sg(table->sgl, sg_elem, table->nents, i) - sg_set_buf(&sg[idx++], sg_virt(sg_elem), sg_elem->length); + sg[idx++] = *sg_elem; *p_idx = idx; }
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