linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 1/6] virtio-net: Stop doing DMA from the stack

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Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2015 18:09:46 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/6] virtio-net: Stop doing DMA from the stack

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>

Once virtio starts using the DMA API, we won't be able to safely DMA
from the stack.  virtio-net does a couple of config DMA requests
from small stack buffers -- switch to using dynamically-allocated
memory.

This should have no effect on any performance-critical code paths.

[I wrote the subject and commit message.  mst wrote the code. --luto]

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index d8838dedb7a4..f94ab786088f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -140,6 +140,12 @@ struct virtnet_info {
 
 	/* CPU hot plug notifier */
 	struct notifier_block nb;
+
+	/* Control VQ buffers: protected by the rtnl lock */
+	struct virtio_net_ctrl_hdr ctrl_hdr;
+	virtio_net_ctrl_ack ctrl_status;
+	u8 ctrl_promisc;
+	u8 ctrl_allmulti;
 };
 
 struct padded_vnet_hdr {
@@ -976,31 +982,30 @@ static bool virtnet_send_command(struct virtnet_info *vi, u8 class, u8 cmd,
 				 struct scatterlist *out)
 {
 	struct scatterlist *sgs[4], hdr, stat;
-	struct virtio_net_ctrl_hdr ctrl;
-	virtio_net_ctrl_ack status = ~0;
 	unsigned out_num = 0, tmp;
 
 	/* Caller should know better */
 	BUG_ON(!virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ));
 
-	ctrl.class = class;
-	ctrl.cmd = cmd;
+	vi->ctrl_status = ~0;
+	vi->ctrl_hdr.class = class;
+	vi->ctrl_hdr.cmd = cmd;
 	/* Add header */
-	sg_init_one(&hdr, &ctrl, sizeof(ctrl));
+	sg_init_one(&hdr, &vi->ctrl_hdr, sizeof(vi->ctrl_hdr));
 	sgs[out_num++] = &hdr;
 
 	if (out)
 		sgs[out_num++] = out;
 
 	/* Add return status. */
-	sg_init_one(&stat, &status, sizeof(status));
+	sg_init_one(&stat, &vi->ctrl_status, sizeof(vi->ctrl_status));
 	sgs[out_num] = &stat;
 
 	BUG_ON(out_num + 1 > ARRAY_SIZE(sgs));
 	virtqueue_add_sgs(vi->cvq, sgs, out_num, 1, vi, GFP_ATOMIC);
 
 	if (unlikely(!virtqueue_kick(vi->cvq)))
-		return status == VIRTIO_NET_OK;
+		return vi->ctrl_status == VIRTIO_NET_OK;
 
 	/* Spin for a response, the kick causes an ioport write, trapping
 	 * into the hypervisor, so the request should be handled immediately.
@@ -1009,7 +1014,7 @@ static bool virtnet_send_command(struct virtnet_info *vi, u8 class, u8 cmd,
 	       !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq))
 		cpu_relax();
 
-	return status == VIRTIO_NET_OK;
+	return vi->ctrl_status == VIRTIO_NET_OK;
 }
 
 static int virtnet_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p)
@@ -1151,7 +1156,6 @@ static void virtnet_set_rx_mode(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
 	struct scatterlist sg[2];
-	u8 promisc, allmulti;
 	struct virtio_net_ctrl_mac *mac_data;
 	struct netdev_hw_addr *ha;
 	int uc_count;
@@ -1163,22 +1167,22 @@ static void virtnet_set_rx_mode(struct net_device *dev)
 	if (!virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX))
 		return;
 
-	promisc = ((dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC) != 0);
-	allmulti = ((dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI) != 0);
+	vi->ctrl_promisc = ((dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC) != 0);
+	vi->ctrl_allmulti = ((dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI) != 0);
 
-	sg_init_one(sg, &promisc, sizeof(promisc));
+	sg_init_one(sg, &vi->ctrl_promisc, sizeof(vi->ctrl_promisc));
 
 	if (!virtnet_send_command(vi, VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX,
 				  VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX_PROMISC, sg))
 		dev_warn(&dev->dev, "Failed to %sable promisc mode.\n",
-			 promisc ? "en" : "dis");
+			 vi->ctrl_promisc ? "en" : "dis");
 
-	sg_init_one(sg, &allmulti, sizeof(allmulti));
+	sg_init_one(sg, &vi->ctrl_allmulti, sizeof(vi->ctrl_allmulti));
 
 	if (!virtnet_send_command(vi, VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX,
 				  VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX_ALLMULTI, sg))
 		dev_warn(&dev->dev, "Failed to %sable allmulti mode.\n",
-			 allmulti ? "en" : "dis");
+			 vi->ctrl_allmulti ? "en" : "dis");
 
 	uc_count = netdev_uc_count(dev);
 	mc_count = netdev_mc_count(dev);
-- 
2.4.3

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