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Date:   Wed, 30 Jun 2021 19:44:21 +0200
From:   Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:     Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Maor Gottlieb <maorg@...dia.com>,
        Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...nelisnetworks.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@...nelisnetworks.com>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...dia.com>,
        Zhu Yanjun <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next v1 1/2] lib/scatterlist: Fix wrong update of
 orig_nents

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 01:12:26PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hi Leon,
> 
> On 29.06.2021 10:40, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > From: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@...dia.com>
> >
> > orig_nents should represent the number of entries with pages,
> > but __sg_alloc_table_from_pages sets orig_nents as the number of
> > total entries in the table. This is wrong when the API is used for
> > dynamic allocation where not all the table entries are mapped with
> > pages. It wasn't observed until now, since RDMA umem who uses this
> > API in the dynamic form doesn't use orig_nents implicit or explicit
> > by the scatterlist APIs.
> >
> > Fix it by:
> > 1. Set orig_nents as number of entries with pages also in
> >     __sg_alloc_table_from_pages.
> > 2. Add a new field total_nents to reflect the total number of entries
> >     in the table. This is required for the release flow (sg_free_table).
> >     This filed should be used internally only by scatterlist.
> >
> > Fixes: 07da1223ec93 ("lib/scatterlist: Add support in dynamic allocation of SG table from pages")
> > Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@...dia.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>
> 
> This patch landed in linux-next 20210630 as commit a52724456928 
> ("lib/scatterlist: Fix wrong update of orig_nents"). It causes serious 
> regression in DMA-IOMMU integration, which can be observed for example 
> on ARM Juno board during boot:
> 
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00376f42a6e40454
> Mem abort info:
>    ESR = 0x96000004
>    EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
>    SET = 0, FnV = 0
>    EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
>    FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
> Data abort info:
>    ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
>    CM = 0, WnR = 0
> [00376f42a6e40454] address between user and kernel address ranges
> Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.13.0-next-20210630+ #3585
> Hardware name: ARM Juno development board (r1) (DT)
> pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
> pc : __sg_free_table+0x60/0xa0
> lr : __sg_free_table+0x7c/0xa0
> ..
> Call trace:
>   __sg_free_table+0x60/0xa0
>   sg_free_table+0x1c/0x28
>   iommu_dma_alloc+0xc8/0x388
>   dma_alloc_attrs+0xcc/0xf0
>   dmam_alloc_attrs+0x68/0xb8
>   sil24_port_start+0x60/0xe0
>   ata_host_start.part.32+0xbc/0x208
>   ata_host_activate+0x64/0x150
>   sil24_init_one+0x1e8/0x268
>   local_pci_probe+0x3c/0xa0
>   pci_device_probe+0x128/0x1c8
>   really_probe+0x138/0x2d0
>   __driver_probe_device+0x78/0xd8
>   driver_probe_device+0x40/0x110
>   __driver_attach+0xcc/0x118
>   bus_for_each_dev+0x68/0xc8
>   driver_attach+0x20/0x28
>   bus_add_driver+0x168/0x1f8
>   driver_register+0x60/0x110
>   __pci_register_driver+0x5c/0x68
>   sil24_pci_driver_init+0x20/0x28
>   do_one_initcall+0x84/0x450
>   kernel_init_freeable+0x31c/0x38c
>   kernel_init+0x20/0x120
>   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
> Code: d37be885 6b01007f 52800004 540000a2 (f8656813)
> ---[ end trace 4ba4f0c9c48711a1 ]---
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
> 
> It looks that some changes to the scatterlist structures are missing 
> outside of the lib/scatterlist.c.
> 
> For now I would suggest to revert this change.

I see a very similar crash on Tegra during the HDA driver's probe.

Leon, let me know if you need a tester for a replacement patch.

Thanks,
Thierry

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