[lvc-project] [PATCH v5] scsi: fill in DMA padding bytes in scsi_alloc_sgtables

Petr Vaganov p.vaganov at ideco.ru
Sun Jun 28 21:52:21 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.

Extend last_sg->length by pad_len first, then use sg_zero_buffer() to
zero those pad_len bytes.  sg_zero_buffer() uses sg_miter internally,
which correctly handles sg entries spanning multiple pages and padding
that crosses a page boundary.

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, fixing a
    potential out-of-bounds write.
    Use memzero_page() instead of open-coded kmap/memset/kunmap.
    Handle the case where padding crosses a page boundary.
v5: Replace hand-rolled page mapping with sg_zero_buffer(), which
    handles multi-page sg entries and page boundary splits correctly
    via sg_miter.
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index 22e2e3223..686cef240 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -1187,8 +1187,10 @@ 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 int data_len = last_sg->length;
 
 		last_sg->length += pad_len;
+		sg_zero_buffer(last_sg, 1, pad_len, data_len);
 		cmd->extra_len += pad_len;
 	}
 
-- 
2.49.0





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