Vaibhav Jain f42248ded3 powerpc/papr_scm: Fix an off-by-one check in papr_scm_meta_{get, set}
[ Upstream commit 612ee81b94 ]

A validation check to prevent out of bounds read/write inside
functions papr_scm_meta_{get,set}() is off-by-one that prevent reads
and writes to the last byte of the label area.

This bug manifests as a failure to probe a dimm when libnvdimm is
unable to read the entire config-area as advertised by
ND_CMD_GET_CONFIG_SIZE. This usually happens when there are large
number of namespaces created in the region backed by the dimm and the
label-index spans max possible config-area. An error of the form below
usually reported in the kernel logs:

[  255.293912] nvdimm: probe of nmem0 failed with error -22

The patch fixes these validation checks there by letting libnvdimm
access the entire config-area.

Fixes: 53e80bd042773('powerpc/nvdimm: Add support for multibyte read/write for metadata')
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190927062002.3169-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2020-01-04 19:16:33 +01:00
2019-12-31 16:46:36 +01:00

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