Re: [scsi] 6aded12b10: kernel_BUG_at_mm/usercopy.c

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 08:40:30AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Regardless, I'm concerned that disabling PAGESPAN will just uncover
> further checks, though. Where is allocation happening? The check is here:

blk_mq_alloc_rqs, using alloc_pages_node.  This hasn't actually changed
with this comment.  Just the size of the allocation shrunk, probably
leading to the span of pages.

> I *think* the allocation is happening in scsi_ioctl_reset()? But that's
> a plain kmalloc(), so I'm not sure why PAGESPAN would have tripped...
> are there other allocation paths?

scsi_ioctl_reset is the odd one out and does also allocate a request,
but that request is never used for user copies (and that whole hacky
side path needs to go away, there is a huge series that needs to be
finished to sort this out).