From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
To: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: Fix buffer length in create_direct_keys()
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 12:13:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <06b371e3-418c-41d8-8c06-1971cc24d8d4@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260706100129.1541140-1-borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Am 06.07.26 um 12:01 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
> We have seen in our CI the following KASAN message:
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in cmd_exec+0x550/0xca0 [mlx5_core]
> Read of size 272 at addr 0000000176795020 by task qemu-system-s39/82764
> [...]
> [<000011388ab3a7a0>] cmd_exec+0x550/0xca0 [mlx5_core]
> [<000011388ab3b61c>] mlx5_cmd_exec_cb+0x25c/0x4f0 [mlx5_core]
> [<000011388b21e82e>] mlx5_vdpa_exec_async_cmds+0x22e/0x5e0 [mlx5_vdpa]
> [<000011388b21fd44>] create_direct_keys+0x954/0xef0 [mlx5_vdpa]
> [...]
> The buggy address is located 4128 bytes inside of
> allocated 4384-byte region [0000000176794000, 0000000176795120)
>
> So in essence we read 16 bytes beyond 4384-byte allocation.
> create_direct_keys calculates the pointer and length for in and out
> buffers.
> The size calculation for in includes the entire structure
> size (out + in + mtt[]) but the pointer passed to cmd_exec points only
> to the 'in' field, skipping the 'out' field.
>
> This causes mlx5_copy_to_msg() to read beyond the allocated buffer
> by sizeof(out) bytes when copying command data.
>
> Calculates the input size as sizeof(in) + mtt_array_size to match the
> pointer and allocation size.
>
> Fixes: 0071b138d44a ("vdpa/mlx5: Create direct MKEYs in parallel")
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c
> index 6d02ccf9eb91..03fe7f5ca412 100644
> --- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c
> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c
> @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ static int create_direct_keys(struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev, struct mlx5_vdpa_mr *
> cmds[i].out = cmd_mem->out;
> cmds[i].outlen = sizeof(cmd_mem->out);
> cmds[i].in = cmd_mem->in;
> - cmds[i].inlen = struct_size(cmd_mem, mtt, mttcount);
> + cmds[i].inlen = sizeof(cmd_mem->in) + (mttcount * sizeof(cmd_mem->mtt[0]));
Assuming the fix is the correct fix, question is, if I should use the offset of in instead, e.g.
cmds[i].inlen = struct_size(cmd_mem, mtt, mttcount) - offsetof(cmd_mem, in);
to handle potential alignment and padding aspects.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-06 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-06 10:01 Christian Borntraeger
2026-07-06 10:13 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2026-07-06 12:24 ` Dragos Tatulea
2026-07-06 12:59 ` Christian Borntraeger
2026-07-06 13:59 ` Dragos Tatulea
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