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author | Wang Sen <senwang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-07-30 14:25:06 +0800 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-10-02 10:30:08 -0700 |
commit | f51909c0af2ebc533eaf48c7daff503b3e54d983 (patch) | |
tree | f0e4b580e19f1c615a39fb14e23d6f7516fe6f59 /drivers/scsi | |
parent | c2cf6b0d20d0febfead4b29d87f9fc2e903127c0 (diff) | |
download | lwn-f51909c0af2ebc533eaf48c7daff503b3e54d983.tar.gz lwn-f51909c0af2ebc533eaf48c7daff503b3e54d983.zip |
SCSI: scsi: virtio-scsi: Fix address translation failure of HighMem pages used by sg list
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c index 1b3843117268..6661610c752e 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static void virtscsi_map_sgl(struct scatterlist *sg, unsigned int *p_idx, 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; } |