On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Kai Makisara wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Alan Stern wrote:
>
> > The page count calculations in drivers/scsi/st.c (and copied in sg.c) are
> > wrong. The code says:
> >
> > nr_pages = ((uaddr & ~PAGE_MASK) + count - 1 + ~PAGE_MASK) >>
> > PAGE_SHIFT;
> >
> > That will compute an incorrect value if the user's buffer happens to end
> > on the first byte of a new page. Example: Suppose uaddr starts right on
>
> Your analysis is correct and this is a bug. Could you send the fix to
> James Bottomley for inclusion into the scsi-bugfixes-2.6 bk tree (at least
> the st part).
>
> Thanks for noticing the bug.
>
> Kai
>
> P.S. I usually write these ((base ~ mask) + count + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >>
> PAGE_SHIFT. I don't know why I did it like this here. One should never try
> to be clever and do something in a new way or copy something that does not
> match one's own standard ways of doing things ;-)
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Alan,
> ... and the sg part as well ..
>
> > Thanks for noticing the bug.
>
> dito
>
> Doug Gilbert
unsigned int nr_pages;
struct page **pages;
- nr_pages = ((uaddr & ~PAGE_MASK) + count - 1 + ~PAGE_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ nr_pages = ((uaddr & ~PAGE_MASK) + count + ~PAGE_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
/* User attempted Overflow! */
if ((uaddr + count) < uaddr)
unsigned int nr_pages;
struct page **pages;
- nr_pages = ((uaddr & ~PAGE_MASK) + count - 1 + ~PAGE_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ nr_pages = ((uaddr & ~PAGE_MASK) + count + ~PAGE_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
/* User attempted Overflow! */
if ((uaddr + count) < uaddr)