Re: [PATCH] iommu/iova: Sort out rbtree limit_pfn handling

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Wed May 17 2017 - 10:07:32 EST


On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:26:48PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> When walking the rbtree, the fact that iovad->start_pfn and limit_pfn
> are both inclusive limits creates an ambiguity once limit_pfn reaches
> the bottom of the address space and they overlap. Commit 5016bdb796b3
> ("iommu/iova: Fix underflow bug in __alloc_and_insert_iova_range") fixed
> the worst side-effect of this, that of underflow wraparound leading to
> bogus allocations, but the remaining fallout is that any attempt to
> allocate start_pfn itself erroneously fails.
>
> The cleanest way to resolve the ambiguity is to simply make limit_pfn an
> exclusive limit when inside the guts of the rbtree. Since we're working
> with PFNs, representing one past the top of the address space is always
> possible without fear of overflow, and elsewhere it just makes life a
> little more straightforward.
>
> Reported-by: Aaron Sierra <asierra@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.