[PATCH] nvme-pci: Fix mempool alloc size

Kanchan Joshi joshi.k at samsung.com
Wed Dec 21 00:02:49 PST 2022


On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 10:59:06AM -0800, Keith Busch wrote:
>From: Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org>
>
>Convert the max size to bytes to match the units of the divisor that
>calculates the worst-case number of PRP entries.
>
>The result is used to determine how many PRP Lists are required. The
>code was previously rounding this to 1 list, but we can require 2 in the
>worst case. In that scenario, the driver would corrupt memory beyond the
>size provided by the mempool.
>
>While unlikely to occur (you'd need a 4MB in exactly 127 phys segments
>on a queue that doesn't support SGLs), this memory corruption has been
>observed by kfence.
>
>Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
>Fixes: 943e942e6266f ("nvme-pci: limit max IO size and segments to avoid high order allocations")
>Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org>
>---
> drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
>index f0f8027644bbf..fa182fcd4c3e8 100644
>--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
>+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
>@@ -380,8 +380,8 @@ static bool nvme_dbbuf_update_and_check_event(u16 value, u32 *dbbuf_db,
>  */
> static int nvme_pci_npages_prp(void)
> {
>-	unsigned nprps = DIV_ROUND_UP(NVME_MAX_KB_SZ + NVME_CTRL_PAGE_SIZE,
>-				      NVME_CTRL_PAGE_SIZE);

Similar calculation is present in apple.c too.
Regardless, this looks good.
Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k at samsung.com>



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