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From: Matthias Goergens <matthias.goergens@gmail.com>
To: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>, Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Matthias Goergens <matthias.goergens@gmail.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ata: libata-scsi: bound the ATA passthru sense descriptor writes
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:26:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922182655.2423663-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com> (raw)

When an ATA PASS-THROUGH command to an ATAPI device fails, the sense
buffer holds the device's REQUEST SENSE reply, and
ata_scsi_set_passthru_sense_fields() trusts its additional length
byte, sb[7], when adding the ATA Status Return descriptor.  A faulty
or malicious device can use that to make the kernel read and write
past the 96-byte buffer in three ways:

- scsi_sense_desc_find() is passed sb[7] + 8 as the buffer length, so
  its clamp against sb[7] does nothing and the walk runs off the end.
- A type-9 descriptor found near the end is filled in unchecked.
- A new descriptor at sb[8 + len] needs len + 22 bytes, not len + 14,
  so len 75..82 writes up to 8 bytes past the end.

Reproduced with KASAN under qemu, with the emulated ATAPI REQUEST SENSE
reply patched:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in scsi_sense_desc_find+0x1a5/0x210
  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ata_scsi_qc_complete+0x1a15/0x1a50

Both are gone with this patch, and a valid descriptor is still filled
in.

Fixes: 97981926224a ("ata: libata-scsi: Do not overwrite valid sense data when CK_COND=1")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matthias Goergens <matthias.goergens@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
index 7e22bbc38238..40e56ff52f09 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
@@ -261,12 +261,18 @@ static void ata_scsi_set_passthru_sense_fields(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
 
 		/* descriptor format */
 		len = sb[7];
-		desc = (char *)scsi_sense_desc_find(sb, len + 8, 9);
+		desc = (char *)scsi_sense_desc_find(sb, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, 9);
 		if (!desc) {
-			if (SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE < len + 14)
+			/*
+			 * The descriptor is written at sb[8 + len] and is 14
+			 * bytes long, so it needs len + 22 bytes of buffer.
+			 */
+			if (len + 22 > SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE)
 				return;
 			sb[7] = len + 14;
 			desc = sb + 8 + len;
+		} else if (desc + 14 > sb + SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE) {
+			return;
 		}
 		desc[0] = 9;
 		desc[1] = 12;

base-commit: 40288c9206c17eb66a603262e06a58d300d0f279
-- 
2.55.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-22 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-22 18:26 Matthias Goergens [this message]
2026-09-23  5:53 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-09-23 16:36 ` Niklas Cassel

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