Re: [PATCH] scsi: core: initialize cmd->cmnd before it is used

[Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@linaro.org>]

On 11/2/21 14:33, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
>> Thanks for having taken a look. I found the above check in sg_new_write(). To 
>> me that function seems to come from a code path that is unrelated to sg_io(), 
>> the function shown in the call stack in the email at the start of this thread. 
>> Maybe I overlooked something but I haven't found a minimum size check for 
>> hdr->cmd_len in sg_io() before the blk_execute_rq() call. Should such a check 
>> perhaps be added?
> 
> I guess it came from ioctl(<non_sg_fd>, SG_IO, ) and I found no lower bound
> check when I looked in lk 5.15.0 . No-one has complained to me about the
>     hp->cmd_len < 6
> 
> check in the sg driver ***. So I think such a check may be useful in the 
> scsi_fill_sghdr_rq() function in drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c . And a return
> of -EMSGSIZE seems to be tailor made for this situation.
> 
> Doug Gilbert
> 
> 
> *** It is possible a vendor specific command could be between 1 and 5 bytes
> long, but that would probably be an unwise choice.

Bart,
Do you want me to send a patch with the check in scsi_fill_sghdr_rq()?
I want to close the mentioned syzbot issue in 5.10. I can also do the
back-porting if anything will be required.

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Thanks,
Tadeusz