Chuck Lever
3ee6a2bc14
commit 15261b9126 upstream.
Olga K. observed that rpcrdma_marsh_req() allocates sparse pages
only when it has determined that a Reply chunk is necessary. There
are plenty of cases where no Reply chunk is needed, but the
XDRBUF_SPARSE_PAGES flag is set. The result would be a crash in
rpcrdma_inline_fixup() when it tries to copy parts of the received
Reply into a missing page.
To avoid crashing, handle sparse page allocation up front.
Until XATTR support was added, this issue did not appear often
because the only SPARSE_PAGES consumer always expected a reply large
enough to always require a Reply chunk.
Reported-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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