linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] iommu/vt-d: Fix potential lockup if qi_submit

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Message-ID: <b64d095e-a9a6-4df9-b693-9cd6018eb1a5@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 10:35:54 +0800
From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
To: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>, iommu@...ts.linux.dev,
 LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com, Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
 "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>, tina.zhang@...el.com,
 Sanjay K Kumar <sanjay.k.kumar@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iommu/vt-d: Fix potential lockup if qi_submit_sync
 called with 0 count

On 7/29/24 5:00 AM, Jacob Pan wrote:
> From: Sanjay K Kumar<sanjay.k.kumar@...el.com>
> 
> If qi_submit_sync() is invoked with 0 invalidation descriptors (for
> instance, for DMA draining purposes), we can run into a bug where a
> submitting thread fails to detect the completion of invalidation_wait.
> Subsequently, this led to a soft lockup. Currently, there is no impact
> by this bug on the existing users because no callers are submitting
> invalidations with 0 descriptors. This fix will enable future users
> (such as DMA drain) calling qi_submit_sync() with 0 count.
> 
> Suppose thread T1 invokes qi_submit_sync() with non-zero descriptors, while
> concurrently, thread T2 calls qi_submit_sync() with zero descriptors. Both
> threads then enter a while loop, waiting for their respective descriptors
> to complete. T1 detects its completion (i.e., T1's invalidation_wait status
> changes to QI_DONE by HW) and proceeds to call reclaim_free_desc() to
> reclaim all descriptors, potentially including adjacent ones of other
> threads that are also marked as QI_DONE.
> 
> During this time, while T2 is waiting to acquire the qi->q_lock, the IOMMU
> hardware may complete the invalidation for T2, setting its status to
> QI_DONE. However, if T1's execution of reclaim_free_desc() frees T2's
> invalidation_wait descriptor and changes its status to QI_FREE, T2 will
> not observe the QI_DONE status for its invalidation_wait and will
> indefinitely remain stuck.
> 
> This soft lockup does not occur when only non-zero descriptors are
> submitted.In such cases, invalidation descriptors are interspersed among
> wait descriptors with the status QI_IN_USE, acting as barriers. These
> barriers prevent the reclaim code from mistakenly freeing descriptors
> belonging to other submitters.
> 
> Considered the following example timeline:
> 	T1			T2
> ========================================
> 	ID1
> 	WD1
> 	while(WD1!=QI_DONE)
> 	unlock
> 				lock
> 	WD1=QI_DONE*		WD2
> 				while(WD2!=QI_DONE)
> 				unlock
> 	lock
> 	WD1==QI_DONE?
> 	ID1=QI_DONE		WD2=DONE*
> 	reclaim()
> 	ID1=FREE
> 	WD1=FREE
> 	WD2=FREE
> 	unlock
> 				soft lockup! T2 never sees QI_DONE in WD2
> 
> Where:
> ID = invalidation descriptor
> WD = wait descriptor
> * Written by hardware
> 
> The root of the problem is that the descriptor status QI_DONE flag is used
> for two conflicting purposes:
> 1. signal a descriptor is ready for reclaim (to be freed)
> 2. signal by the hardware that a wait descriptor is complete
> 
> The solution (in this patch) is state separation by using QI_FREE flag
> for #1.
> 
> Once a thread's invalidation descriptors are complete, their status would
> be set to QI_FREE. The reclaim_free_desc() function would then only
> free descriptors marked as QI_FREE instead of those marked as
> QI_DONE. This change ensures that T2 (from the previous example) will
> correctly observe the completion of its invalidation_wait (marked as
> QI_DONE).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sanjay K Kumar<sanjay.k.kumar@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan<jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>

Queued for v6.12-rc1.

Thanks,
baolu