[SCSI] libata: fix corruption induced by relaxed DMA alignment in SCSI
Hugh Dickens noticed that SMART commands issued from user space can
end up corupting memory. The problem occurs if the buffer used to
read data spans two pages. The reason is that the PIO sector routines
in libata are expecting physically contiguous pages when they do
sector operations, so the left overs on the second page go into the
next physically adjacent page rather than the next page in the sg
mapping.
Fix this by enforcing strict 512 byte alignment on all buffers from
userspace.
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
index 4bb268b..bc5cf6b 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
@@ -824,9 +824,6 @@
* requests.
*/
sdev->max_device_blocked = 1;
-
- /* set the min alignment */
- blk_queue_update_dma_alignment(sdev->request_queue, ATA_DMA_PAD_SZ - 1);
}
static void ata_scsi_dev_config(struct scsi_device *sdev,
@@ -842,7 +839,14 @@
if (dev->class == ATA_DEV_ATAPI) {
struct request_queue *q = sdev->request_queue;
blk_queue_max_hw_segments(q, q->max_hw_segments - 1);
- }
+
+ /* set the min alignment */
+ blk_queue_update_dma_alignment(sdev->request_queue,
+ ATA_DMA_PAD_SZ - 1);
+ } else
+ /* ATA devices must be sector aligned */
+ blk_queue_update_dma_alignment(sdev->request_queue,
+ ATA_SECT_SIZE - 1);
if (dev->flags & ATA_DFLAG_AN)
set_bit(SDEV_EVT_MEDIA_CHANGE, sdev->supported_events);