[lvc-project] [PATCH v4] scsi: fill in DMA padding bytes in scsi_alloc_sgtables

Petr Vaganov p.vaganov at ideco.ru
Sun Jun 28 21:34:55 MSK 2026


During fuzz testing, the following issue was discovered:

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __dma_map_sg_attrs+0x217/0x310
 __dma_map_sg_attrs+0x217/0x310
 dma_map_sg_attrs+0x4a/0x70
 ata_qc_issue+0x9f8/0x1420
 __ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x1657/0x1740
 ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x79a/0x920
 scsi_queue_rq+0x4472/0x4f40
 blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x1cca/0x3ee0
 __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x458/0x630
 blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x15b/0x340
 __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0xe5/0x250
 __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x138/0x780
 blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x4bb/0x7e0
 blk_mq_sched_insert_request+0x2a7/0x4c0
 blk_execute_rq+0x497/0x8a0
 sg_io+0xbe0/0xe20
 scsi_ioctl+0x2b36/0x3c60
 sr_block_ioctl+0x319/0x440
 blkdev_ioctl+0x80f/0xd70
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x219/0x420
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xe0
 x64_sys_call+0x1d6c/0x3ad0
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

Uninit was created at:
 __alloc_pages+0x5c0/0xc80
 alloc_pages+0xe0e/0x1050
 blk_rq_map_user_iov+0x2b77/0x6100
 blk_rq_map_user_io+0x2fa/0x4d0
 sg_io+0xad6/0xe20
 scsi_ioctl+0x2b36/0x3c60
 sr_block_ioctl+0x319/0x440
 blkdev_ioctl+0x80f/0xd70
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x219/0x420
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xe0
 x64_sys_call+0x1d6c/0x3ad0
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

Bytes 14-15 of 16 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 16 starts at ffff88800cbdb000

When processing the last unaligned element of the scatterlist,
it is supplemented with missing bytes in the amount of pad_len.
These bytes remain uninitialized, which leads to a problem.

Zero the pad_len padding bytes before extending the length.  This
ensures that the DMA does not receive uninitialized data and eliminates
the KMSAN warning.

The padding bytes start at byte (last_sg->offset + last_sg->length)
within the sg entry. Since the last sg element may span multiple pages,
pfn_to_page() with page_to_pfn() arithmetic is used to locate the page
containing the start of the padding. The padding may cross a page
boundary (e.g. dma_pad_mask=511 with data ending near a page boundary),
so the zeroing is split into two memzero_page() calls when needed.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Fixes: 40b01b9bbdf5 ("block: update bio according to DMA alignment padding")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Petr Vaganov <p.vaganov at ideco.ru>
---
v2: Added tag "Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org".
v3: Resending this patch as the issue is still present in the current
    kernel and the previous submission did not receive review.
v4: Use pfn_to_page()/page_to_pfn() arithmetic to locate the correct
    page when the last sg element spans multiple pages.
    Use memzero_page() instead of open-coded kmap/memset/kunmap.
    Handle the case where padding crosses a page boundary by splitting
    into two memzero_page() calls.
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index 22e2e3223..d7111be45 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -1187,6 +1187,20 @@ blk_status_t scsi_alloc_sgtables(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd)
 	if (blk_rq_bytes(rq) & rq->q->limits.dma_pad_mask) {
 		unsigned int pad_len =
 			(rq->q->limits.dma_pad_mask & ~blk_rq_bytes(rq)) + 1;
+		unsigned long pad_off = last_sg->offset + last_sg->length;
+		unsigned int pg_off = offset_in_page(pad_off);
+		unsigned int chunk = min_t(unsigned int, PAGE_SIZE - pg_off,
+					   pad_len);
+		struct page *pad_page =
+			pfn_to_page(page_to_pfn(sg_page(last_sg)) +
+				    (pad_off >> PAGE_SHIFT));
+
+		/* dma_pad_mask is expected to be smaller than PAGE_SIZE */
+		memzero_page(pad_page, pg_off, chunk);
+		if (chunk < pad_len)
+			/* Pages within an sg entry are physically contiguous. */
+			memzero_page(pfn_to_page(page_to_pfn(pad_page) + 1),
+				     0, pad_len - chunk);
 
 		last_sg->length += pad_len;
 		cmd->extra_len += pad_len;
-- 
2.49.0





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