linux-kernel - Re: next-0519 on thinkpad x60: sound related? window manager crash

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Date:   Tue, 9 Jun 2020 10:43:05 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        "Alex Xu (Hello71)" <alex_y_xu@...oo.ca>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, bp@...en8.de, hch@...radead.org,
        hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, perex@...ex.cz,
        tglx@...utronix.de, tiwai@...e.com, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: next-0519 on thinkpad x60: sound related? window manager crash

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 10:05:26AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > >From the disassembly it seems like a vmalloc allocation is NULL, which
> > seems really weird as this patch shouldn't make a difference for them,
> > and I also only see a single places that allocates the field, and that
> > checks for an allocation failure.  But the sound code is a little
> > hard to unwind sometimes.
> 
> It's not clear which sound device being affected, but if it's
> HD-audio on x86, runtime->dma_area points to a vmapped buffer from
> SG-pages allocated by dma_alloc_coherent().
> 
> OTOH, if it's a USB-audio, runtime->dma_area is a buffer by
> vmalloc().

Err, you can't just vmap a buffer returned from dma_alloc_coherent,
dma_alloc_coherent returns values are opaque and can't be used
for virt_to_page.  Whatever that code did has already been broken
per the DMA API contract and on many architectures and just happend
to work on x86 by accident.