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authorNicholas Bellinger2013-10-25 10:44:15 -0700
committerNicholas Bellinger2013-10-25 11:03:34 -0700
commit60a01f558af9c48b0bb31f303c479e32721add3f (patch)
tree8155f05d553ee5d7d22117cdbda4222939bc939e /lib/dec_and_lock.c
parent58932e96e438cd78f75e765d7b87ef39d3533d15 (diff)
vhost/scsi: Fix incorrect usage of get_user_pages_fast write parameter
This patch addresses a long-standing bug where the get_user_pages_fast() write parameter used for setting the underlying page table entry permission bits was incorrectly set to write=1 for data_direction=DMA_TO_DEVICE, and passed into get_user_pages_fast() via vhost_scsi_map_iov_to_sgl(). However, this parameter is intended to signal WRITEs to pinned userspace PTEs for the virtio-scsi DMA_FROM_DEVICE -> READ payload case, and *not* for the virtio-scsi DMA_TO_DEVICE -> WRITE payload case. This bug would manifest itself as random process segmentation faults on KVM host after repeated vhost starts + stops and/or with lots of vhost endpoints + LUNs. Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.6+ Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
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