[dm-devel] [patch 04/73] dm crypt: use bio_add_page

Greg KH gregkh at suse.de
Wed Feb 6 23:50:58 UTC 2008


2.6.23-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Milan Broz <mbroz at redhat.com>

patch 91e106259214b40e992a58fb9417da46868e19b2 in mainline.

Fix possible max_phys_segments violation in cloned dm-crypt bio.

In write operation dm-crypt needs to allocate new bio request
and run crypto operation on this clone. Cloned request has always
the same size, but number of physical segments can be increased
and violate max_phys_segments restriction.

This can lead to data corruption and serious hardware malfunction.
This was observed when using XFS over dm-crypt and at least
two HBA controller drivers (arcmsr, cciss) recently.

Fix it by using bio_add_page() call (which tests for other
restrictions too) instead of constructing own biovec.

All versions of dm-crypt are affected by this bug.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>

---
 drivers/md/dm-crypt.c |   24 +++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
@@ -399,7 +399,8 @@ static struct bio *crypt_alloc_buffer(st
 	struct bio *clone;
 	unsigned int nr_iovecs = (size + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGHMEM;
-	unsigned int i;
+	unsigned i, len;
+	struct page *page;
 
 	clone = bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_NOIO, nr_iovecs, cc->bs);
 	if (!clone)
@@ -408,10 +409,8 @@ static struct bio *crypt_alloc_buffer(st
 	clone_init(io, clone);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_iovecs; i++) {
-		struct bio_vec *bv = bio_iovec_idx(clone, i);
-
-		bv->bv_page = mempool_alloc(cc->page_pool, gfp_mask);
-		if (!bv->bv_page)
+		page = mempool_alloc(cc->page_pool, gfp_mask);
+		if (!page)
 			break;
 
 		/*
@@ -422,15 +421,14 @@ static struct bio *crypt_alloc_buffer(st
 		if (i == (MIN_BIO_PAGES - 1))
 			gfp_mask = (gfp_mask | __GFP_NOWARN) & ~__GFP_WAIT;
 
-		bv->bv_offset = 0;
-		if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
-			bv->bv_len = PAGE_SIZE;
-		else
-			bv->bv_len = size;
+		len = (size > PAGE_SIZE) ? PAGE_SIZE : size;
+
+		if (!bio_add_page(clone, page, len, 0)) {
+			mempool_free(page, cc->page_pool);
+			break;
+		}
 
-		clone->bi_size += bv->bv_len;
-		clone->bi_vcnt++;
-		size -= bv->bv_len;
+		size -= len;
 	}
 
 	if (!clone->bi_size) {

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