linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver core: Postpone DMA tear-down until after devres release for probe failure

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Message-ID: <d2504066-3d1a-176f-0f7e-7f86431ef88c@huawei.com>
Date:   Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:50:40 +0100
From:   John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, <robin.murphy@....com>
CC:     <rafael@...nel.org>, <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
        <chenxiang66@...ilicon.com>, <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <robh@...nel.org>,
        <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Postpone DMA tear-down until after devres
 release for probe failure

On 04/04/2019 12:17, John Garry wrote:
> On 03/04/2019 10:20, John Garry wrote:
>> On 03/04/2019 09:14, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:02:36AM +0100, John Garry wrote:
>>>> On 28/03/2019 10:08, John Garry wrote:
>>>>> In commit 376991db4b64 ("driver core: Postpone DMA tear-down until
>>>>> after
>>>>> devres release"), we changed the ordering of tearing down the device
>>>>> DMA
>>>>> ops and releasing all the device's resources; this was because the
>>>>> DMA ops
>>>>> should be maintained until we release the device's managed DMA
>>>>> memories.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> A friendly reminder on this patch... I didn't see any update.
>>>>
>>>> I thought that it had some importance.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>> However, we have seen another crash on an arm64 system when a
>>>>> device driver probe fails:
>>>>>
>>>>>   hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:74:02.0: Adding to iommu group 2
>>>>>   scsi host1: hisi_sas_v3_hw
>>>>>   BUG: Bad page state in process swapper/0  pfn:313f5
>>>>>   page:ffff7e0000c4fd40 count:1 mapcount:0
>>>>>   mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0
>>>>>   flags: 0xfffe00000001000(reserved)
>>>>>   raw: 0fffe00000001000 ffff7e0000c4fd48 ffff7e0000c4fd48
>>>>> 0000000000000000
>>>>>   raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff
>>>>> 0000000000000000
>>>>>   page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set
>>>>>   bad because of flags: 0x1000(reserved)
>>>>>   Modules linked in:
>>>>>   CPU: 49 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
>>>>> 5.1.0-rc1-43081-g22d97fd-dirty #1433
>>>>>   Hardware name: Huawei D06/D06, BIOS Hisilicon D06 UEFI
>>>>> RC0 - V1.12.01 01/29/2019
>>>>>   Call trace:
>>>>>   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x118
>>>>>   show_stack+0x14/0x1c
>>>>>   dump_stack+0xa4/0xc8
>>>>>   bad_page+0xe4/0x13c
>>>>>   free_pages_check_bad+0x4c/0xc0
>>>>>   __free_pages_ok+0x30c/0x340
>>>>>   __free_pages+0x30/0x44
>>>>>   __dma_direct_free_pages+0x30/0x38
>>>>>   dma_direct_free+0x24/0x38
>>>>>   dma_free_attrs+0x9c/0xd8
>>>>>   dmam_release+0x20/0x28
>>>>>   release_nodes+0x17c/0x220
>>>>>   devres_release_all+0x34/0x54
>>>>>   really_probe+0xc4/0x2c8
>>>>>   driver_probe_device+0x58/0xfc
>>>>>   device_driver_attach+0x68/0x70
>>>>>   __driver_attach+0x94/0xdc
>>>>>   bus_for_each_dev+0x5c/0xb4
>>>>>   driver_attach+0x20/0x28
>>>>>   bus_add_driver+0x14c/0x200
>>>>>   driver_register+0x6c/0x124
>>>>>   __pci_register_driver+0x48/0x50
>>>>>   sas_v3_pci_driver_init+0x20/0x28
>>>>>   do_one_initcall+0x40/0x25c
>>>>>   kernel_init_freeable+0x2b8/0x3c0
>>>>>   kernel_init+0x10/0x100
>>>>>   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
>>>>>   Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
>>>>>   BUG: Bad page state in process swapper/0  pfn:313f6
>>>>>   page:ffff7e0000c4fd80 count:1 mapcount:0
>>>>> mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0
>>>>> [   89.322983] flags: 0xfffe00000001000(reserved)
>>>>>   raw: 0fffe00000001000 ffff7e0000c4fd88 ffff7e0000c4fd88
>>>>> 0000000000000000
>>>>>   raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff
>>>>> 0000000000000000
>>>>>
>>>>> The crash occurs for the same reason.
>>>>>
>>>>> In this case, on the really_probe() failure path, we are still
>>>>> clearing
>>>>> the DMA ops prior to releasing the device's managed memories.
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch fixes this issue by reordering the DMA ops teardown and the
>>>>> call to devres_release_all() on the failure path.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reported-by: Xiang Chen <chenxiang66@...ilicon.com>
>>>>> Tested-by: Xiang Chen <chenxiang66@...ilicon.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
>>>
>>> So does this "fix" 376991db4b64?  If so, should this be added to the
>>> patch and also backported to the stable trees?
>>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> No, I don't think so. I'd say it supplements it. Here I'm trying to fix
>> up another path in which we tear down the DMA ops prior to releasing the
>> device's resources.
>>
>> I didn't add a fixes tag as 376991db4b64 didn't have one either. It will
>> need to be backported to stable, I figure the same as 376991db4b64.
>

Hi Greg,

I still think that we should consider merging this patch.

Thanks,
John

> So 376991db4b64 required manual backporting to stable, and this patch
> would require the same:
>
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg289685.html
>
> Robin, any further comment?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>
>