Re: [PATCH v3] vdpa/mlx5: Fix buffer length in create_direct_keys()
Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:26:51 +0200
| Newsgroups | dev.linux.lists.virtualization,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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Am 10.07.26 um 13:37 schrieb Dragos Tatulea:
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> On 10.07.26 10:23, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
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>> On 10.07.26 09:18, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>> Am 07.07.26 um 09:17 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
>>>> Am 06.07.26 um 16:15 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Properly calculate the input size to match the pointer and allocation size.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: 0071b138d44a ("vdpa/mlx5: Create direct MKEYs in parallel")
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
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>>>>
>>>> Dragos,
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>>>> With this fix our nighly CI did not result in a kasan message. As I only have
>>>> limited test coverage a full regression on your side might still be the right
>>>> thing to do.
>>>
>>> Any feedback?
>>>
>> Sorry, got carried away with other stuff. Yes, I will check it on our side.
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>> Until then:
>> Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea <[email protected]>
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> I was able to reproduce the issue with KASAN during our live migration tests.
> With this patch the issue is gone. Thanks for the fix!
> Tested-by: Dragos Tatulea <[email protected]>
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