linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 39/42] UAS: fix alignment of scatter/gather segments

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Date:   Thu,  9 May 2019 20:42:28 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 39/42] UAS: fix alignment of scatter/gather segments

From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>

commit 3ae62a42090f1ed48e2313ed256a1182a85fb575 upstream.

This is the UAS version of

747668dbc061b3e62bc1982767a3a1f9815fcf0e
usb-storage: Set virt_boundary_mask to avoid SG overflows

We are not as likely to be vulnerable as storage, as it is unlikelier
that UAS is run over a controller without native support for SG,
but the issue exists.
The issue has been existing since the inception of the driver.

Fixes: 115bb1ffa54c ("USB: Add UAS driver")
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
Cc: stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/usb/storage/uas.c |   35 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/storage/uas.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/storage/uas.c
@@ -796,24 +796,33 @@ static int uas_slave_alloc(struct scsi_d
 {
 	struct uas_dev_info *devinfo =
 		(struct uas_dev_info *)sdev->host->hostdata;
+	int maxp;
 
 	sdev->hostdata = devinfo;
 
 	/*
-	 * USB has unusual DMA-alignment requirements: Although the
-	 * starting address of each scatter-gather element doesn't matter,
-	 * the length of each element except the last must be divisible
-	 * by the Bulk maxpacket value.  There's currently no way to
-	 * express this by block-layer constraints, so we'll cop out
-	 * and simply require addresses to be aligned at 512-byte
-	 * boundaries.  This is okay since most block I/O involves
-	 * hardware sectors that are multiples of 512 bytes in length,
-	 * and since host controllers up through USB 2.0 have maxpacket
-	 * values no larger than 512.
+	 * We have two requirements here. We must satisfy the requirements
+	 * of the physical HC and the demands of the protocol, as we
+	 * definitely want no additional memory allocation in this path
+	 * ruling out using bounce buffers.
 	 *
-	 * But it doesn't suffice for Wireless USB, where Bulk maxpacket
-	 * values can be as large as 2048.  To make that work properly
-	 * will require changes to the block layer.
+	 * For a transmission on USB to continue we must never send
+	 * a package that is smaller than maxpacket. Hence the length of each
+         * scatterlist element except the last must be divisible by the
+         * Bulk maxpacket value.
+	 * If the HC does not ensure that through SG,
+	 * the upper layer must do that. We must assume nothing
+	 * about the capabilities off the HC, so we use the most
+	 * pessimistic requirement.
+	 */
+
+	maxp = usb_maxpacket(devinfo->udev, devinfo->data_in_pipe, 0);
+	blk_queue_virt_boundary(sdev->request_queue, maxp - 1);
+
+	/*
+	 * The protocol has no requirements on alignment in the strict sense.
+	 * Controllers may or may not have alignment restrictions.
+	 * As this is not exported, we use an extremely conservative guess.
 	 */
 	blk_queue_update_dma_alignment(sdev->request_queue, (512 - 1));