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Message-Id: <20250610101234.1100660-3-zhangchunyan@iscas.ac.cn>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:12:32 +0800
From: Chunyan Zhang <zhangchunyan@...as.ac.cn>
To: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
	Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>,
	Charlie Jenkins <charlie@...osinc.com>,
	Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
	Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
Cc: linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] raid6: riscv: Fix NULL pointer dereference issue

When running the raid6 user-space test program on RISC-V QEMU, there's a
segmentation fault which seems caused by accessing a NULL pointer,
which is the pointer variable p/q in raid6_rvv*_gen/xor_syndrome_real(),
p/q should have been equal to dptr[x], but when I use GDB command to
see its value, which was 0x10 like below:

"
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000011062 in raid6_rvv2_xor_syndrome_real (disks=<optimized out>, start=0, stop=<optimized out>, bytes=4096, ptrs=<optimized out>) at rvv.c:386
(gdb) p p
$1 = (u8 *) 0x10 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x10>
"

The issue was found to be related with:
1) Compile optimization
   There's no segmentation fault if compiling the raid6test program with
   the optimization flag -O0.
2) The RISC-V vector command vsetvli
   If not used t0 as the first parameter in vsetvli, there's no
   segmentation fault either.

This patch selects the 2nd solution to fix the issue.

Fixes: 6093faaf9593 ("raid6: Add RISC-V SIMD syndrome and recovery calculations")
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhangchunyan@...as.ac.cn>
---
 lib/raid6/rvv.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/raid6/rvv.c b/lib/raid6/rvv.c
index bf7d5cd659e0..b193ea176d5d 100644
--- a/lib/raid6/rvv.c
+++ b/lib/raid6/rvv.c
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ static int rvv_has_vector(void)
 static void raid6_rvv1_gen_syndrome_real(int disks, unsigned long bytes, void **ptrs)
 {
 	u8 **dptr = (u8 **)ptrs;
-	unsigned long d;
-	int z, z0;
 	u8 *p, *q;
+	unsigned long vl, d;
+	int z, z0;
 
 	z0 = disks - 3;		/* Highest data disk */
 	p = dptr[z0 + 1];		/* XOR parity */
@@ -33,8 +33,9 @@ static void raid6_rvv1_gen_syndrome_real(int disks, unsigned long bytes, void **
 
 	asm volatile (".option	push\n"
 		      ".option	arch,+v\n"
-		      "vsetvli	t0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
+		      "vsetvli	%0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
 		      ".option	pop\n"
+		      : "=&r" (vl)
 	);
 
 	 /* v0:wp0, v1:wq0, v2:wd0/w20, v3:w10 */
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ static void raid6_rvv1_xor_syndrome_real(int disks, int start, int stop,
 {
 	u8 **dptr = (u8 **)ptrs;
 	u8 *p, *q;
-	unsigned long d;
+	unsigned long vl, d;
 	int z, z0;
 
 	z0 = stop;		/* P/Q right side optimization */
@@ -105,8 +106,9 @@ static void raid6_rvv1_xor_syndrome_real(int disks, int start, int stop,
 
 	asm volatile (".option	push\n"
 		      ".option	arch,+v\n"
-		      "vsetvli	t0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
+		      "vsetvli	%0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
 		      ".option	pop\n"
+		      : "=&r" (vl)
 	);
 
 	/* v0:wp0, v1:wq0, v2:wd0/w20, v3:w10 */
@@ -192,9 +194,9 @@ static void raid6_rvv1_xor_syndrome_real(int disks, int start, int stop,
 static void raid6_rvv2_gen_syndrome_real(int disks, unsigned long bytes, void **ptrs)
 {
 	u8 **dptr = (u8 **)ptrs;
-	unsigned long d;
-	int z, z0;
 	u8 *p, *q;
+	unsigned long vl, d;
+	int z, z0;
 
 	z0 = disks - 3;		/* Highest data disk */
 	p = dptr[z0 + 1];		/* XOR parity */
@@ -202,8 +204,9 @@ static void raid6_rvv2_gen_syndrome_real(int disks, unsigned long bytes, void **
 
 	asm volatile (".option	push\n"
 		      ".option	arch,+v\n"
-		      "vsetvli	t0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
+		      "vsetvli	%0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
 		      ".option	pop\n"
+		      : "=&r" (vl)
 	);
 
 	/*
@@ -284,7 +287,7 @@ static void raid6_rvv2_xor_syndrome_real(int disks, int start, int stop,
 {
 	u8 **dptr = (u8 **)ptrs;
 	u8 *p, *q;
-	unsigned long d;
+	unsigned long vl, d;
 	int z, z0;
 
 	z0 = stop;		/* P/Q right side optimization */
@@ -293,8 +296,9 @@ static void raid6_rvv2_xor_syndrome_real(int disks, int start, int stop,
 
 	asm volatile (".option	push\n"
 		      ".option	arch,+v\n"
-		      "vsetvli	t0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
+		      "vsetvli	%0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
 		      ".option	pop\n"
+		      : "=&r" (vl)
 	);
 
 	/*
@@ -410,9 +414,9 @@ static void raid6_rvv2_xor_syndrome_real(int disks, int start, int stop,
 static void raid6_rvv4_gen_syndrome_real(int disks, unsigned long bytes, void **ptrs)
 {
 	u8 **dptr = (u8 **)ptrs;
-	unsigned long d;
-	int z, z0;
 	u8 *p, *q;
+	unsigned long vl, d;
+	int z, z0;
 
 	z0 = disks - 3;	/* Highest data disk */
 	p = dptr[z0 + 1];	/* XOR parity */
@@ -420,8 +424,9 @@ static void raid6_rvv4_gen_syndrome_real(int disks, unsigned long bytes, void **
 
 	asm volatile (".option	push\n"
 		      ".option	arch,+v\n"
-		      "vsetvli	t0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
+		      "vsetvli	%0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
 		      ".option	pop\n"
+		      : "=&r" (vl)
 	);
 
 	/*
@@ -536,7 +541,7 @@ static void raid6_rvv4_xor_syndrome_real(int disks, int start, int stop,
 {
 	u8 **dptr = (u8 **)ptrs;
 	u8 *p, *q;
-	unsigned long d;
+	unsigned long vl, d;
 	int z, z0;
 
 	z0 = stop;		/* P/Q right side optimization */
@@ -545,8 +550,9 @@ static void raid6_rvv4_xor_syndrome_real(int disks, int start, int stop,
 
 	asm volatile (".option	push\n"
 		      ".option	arch,+v\n"
-		      "vsetvli	t0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
+		      "vsetvli	%0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
 		      ".option	pop\n"
+		      : "=&r" (vl)
 	);
 
 	/*
@@ -718,9 +724,9 @@ static void raid6_rvv4_xor_syndrome_real(int disks, int start, int stop,
 static void raid6_rvv8_gen_syndrome_real(int disks, unsigned long bytes, void **ptrs)
 {
 	u8 **dptr = (u8 **)ptrs;
-	unsigned long d;
-	int z, z0;
 	u8 *p, *q;
+	unsigned long vl, d;
+	int z, z0;
 
 	z0 = disks - 3;	/* Highest data disk */
 	p = dptr[z0 + 1];	/* XOR parity */
@@ -728,8 +734,9 @@ static void raid6_rvv8_gen_syndrome_real(int disks, unsigned long bytes, void **
 
 	asm volatile (".option	push\n"
 		      ".option	arch,+v\n"
-		      "vsetvli	t0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
+		      "vsetvli	%0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
 		      ".option	pop\n"
+		      : "=&r" (vl)
 	);
 
 	/*
@@ -912,7 +919,7 @@ static void raid6_rvv8_xor_syndrome_real(int disks, int start, int stop,
 {
 	u8 **dptr = (u8 **)ptrs;
 	u8 *p, *q;
-	unsigned long d;
+	unsigned long vl, d;
 	int z, z0;
 
 	z0 = stop;		/* P/Q right side optimization */
@@ -921,8 +928,9 @@ static void raid6_rvv8_xor_syndrome_real(int disks, int start, int stop,
 
 	asm volatile (".option	push\n"
 		      ".option	arch,+v\n"
-		      "vsetvli	t0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
+		      "vsetvli	%0, x0, e8, m1, ta, ma\n"
 		      ".option	pop\n"
+		      : "=&r" (vl)
 	);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.34.1


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