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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 10:59:25 -0500
From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>, jgross@...e.com,
sstabellini@...nel.org
Cc: xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
zhong.weidong@....com.cn, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] pvcalls-front: Avoid get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL) under
spinlock
On 12/1/18 1:33 AM, Wen Yang wrote:
> The problem is that we call this with a spin lock held.
> The call tree is:
> pvcalls_front_accept() holds bedata->socket_lock.
> -> create_active()
> -> __get_free_pages() uses GFP_KERNEL
>
> The create_active() function is only called from pvcalls_front_accept()
> with a spin_lock held, The allocation is not allowed to sleep and
> GFP_KERNEL is not sufficient.
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> v2: Add a function doing the allocations which is called
> outside the lock and passing the allocated data to
> create_active().
>
> v3: Use the matching deallocators i.e., free_page()
> and free_pages(), respectively.
>
> v4: It would be better to pre-populate map (struct sock_mapping),
> rather than introducing one more new struct.
>
> Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
> Suggested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
> Suggested-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>
> CC: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
> CC: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
> CC: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
> CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>
> CC: xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> ---
> drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c b/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> index 77224d8f3e6f..555c9abdf58f 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> @@ -335,13 +335,18 @@ int pvcalls_front_socket(struct socket *sock)
> return ret;
> }
>
> -static int create_active(struct sock_mapping *map, int *evtchn)
> +static void free_active_ring(struct sock_mapping *map)
> {
> - void *bytes;
> - int ret = -ENOMEM, irq = -1, i;
> + if (!map)
> + return;
> + free_pages((unsigned long)map->active.data.in,
> + map->active.ring->ring_order);
> + free_page((unsigned long)map->active.ring);
> +}
>
> - *evtchn = -1;
> - init_waitqueue_head(&map->active.inflight_conn_req);
> +static int alloc_active_ring(struct sock_mapping *map)
> +{
> + void *bytes;
>
> map->active.ring = (struct pvcalls_data_intf *)
> __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
> @@ -352,6 +357,26 @@ static int create_active(struct sock_mapping *map, int *evtchn)
> PVCALLS_RING_ORDER);
> if (bytes == NULL)
> goto out_error;
> + map->active.data.in = bytes;
> + map->active.data.out = bytes +
> + XEN_FLEX_RING_SIZE(PVCALLS_RING_ORDER);
> +
> + return 0;
> +
> +out_error:
> + free_active_ring(map);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +}
> +
> +static int create_active(struct sock_mapping *map, int *evtchn)
> +{
> + void *bytes;
> + int ret = -ENOMEM, irq = -1, i;
> +
> + *evtchn = -1;
> + init_waitqueue_head(&map->active.inflight_conn_req);
> +
> + bytes = map->active.data.in;
Why is this needed?
I may not be be reading the diff correctly, but your patch appears to be
whitespace-damaged and I can't apply it.
> for (i = 0; i < (1 << PVCALLS_RING_ORDER); i++)
> map->active.ring->ref[i] = gnttab_grant_foreign_access(
> pvcalls_front_dev->otherend_id,
> @@ -361,10 +386,6 @@ static int create_active(struct sock_mapping *map, int *evtchn)
> pvcalls_front_dev->otherend_id,
> pfn_to_gfn(virt_to_pfn((void *)map->active.ring)), 0);
>
> - map->active.data.in = bytes;
> - map->active.data.out = bytes +
> - XEN_FLEX_RING_SIZE(PVCALLS_RING_ORDER);
> -
> ret = xenbus_alloc_evtchn(pvcalls_front_dev, evtchn);
> if (ret)
> goto out_error;
> @@ -385,8 +406,7 @@ static int create_active(struct sock_mapping *map, int *evtchn)
> out_error:
> if (*evtchn >= 0)
> xenbus_free_evtchn(pvcalls_front_dev, *evtchn);
> - free_pages((unsigned long)map->active.data.in, PVCALLS_RING_ORDER);
> - free_page((unsigned long)map->active.ring);
> + free_active_ring(map);
I think that since you are allocating the data outside of this call it
should also be freed outside, when create_active() fails.
-boris
> return ret;
> }
>
> @@ -406,11 +426,17 @@ int pvcalls_front_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr,
> return PTR_ERR(map);
>
> bedata = dev_get_drvdata(&pvcalls_front_dev->dev);
> + ret = alloc_active_ring(map);
> + if (ret < 0) {
> + pvcalls_exit_sock(sock);
> + return ret;
> + }
>
> spin_lock(&bedata->socket_lock);
> ret = get_request(bedata, &req_id);
> if (ret < 0) {
> spin_unlock(&bedata->socket_lock);
> + free_active_ring(map);
> pvcalls_exit_sock(sock);
> return ret;
> }
> @@ -780,12 +806,20 @@ int pvcalls_front_accept(struct socket *sock, struct socket *newsock, int flags)
> }
> }
>
> + ret = alloc_active_ring(map);
> + if (ret < 0) {
> + clear_bit(PVCALLS_FLAG_ACCEPT_INFLIGHT,
> + (void *)&map->passive.flags);
> + pvcalls_exit_sock(sock);
> + return ret;
> + }
> spin_lock(&bedata->socket_lock);
> ret = get_request(bedata, &req_id);
> if (ret < 0) {
> clear_bit(PVCALLS_FLAG_ACCEPT_INFLIGHT,
> (void *)&map->passive.flags);
> spin_unlock(&bedata->socket_lock);
> + free_active_ring(map);
> pvcalls_exit_sock(sock);
> return ret;
> }
> @@ -794,6 +828,7 @@ int pvcalls_front_accept(struct socket *sock, struct socket *newsock, int flags)
> clear_bit(PVCALLS_FLAG_ACCEPT_INFLIGHT,
> (void *)&map->passive.flags);
> spin_unlock(&bedata->socket_lock);
> + free_active_ring(map);
> pvcalls_exit_sock(sock);
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
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