virtio_blk: Fix an SG_IO regression

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Avoid that submitting an SG_IO ioctl triggers a kernel oops that
is preceded by:

usercopy: kernel memory overwrite attempt detected to (null) (<null>) (6 bytes)
kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:72!

Reported-by: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
Fixes: commit ca18d6f769 ("block: Make most scsi_req_init() calls implicit")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.13
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Moved virtblk_initialize_rq() inside CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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Bart Van Assche 2017-10-27 08:23:21 -06:00 • committed by Jens Axboe

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