Re: 答复: [外部邮件] Re: [PATCH] iommu/dma-iommu: Fix wrong scatterlist length assignment in P2PDMA path
From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 - 08:01:28 EST
On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 09:42:40AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> Hi Li,
>
> On 2026-06-02 00:12, Li,Rongqing wrote:
> >>> Fixes: a25e7962db ("PCI/P2PDMA: Refactor the p2pdma mapping helpers")
> >>> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Hmm, I thought I had tested this stuff pretty thoroughly so I'm surprised I
> >> missed that. But I guess seeing the users of these specifically don't allow
> >> mixing with anonymous memory the vast majority of tests would only have
> >> one segment.
> >>
> >> Can you confirm that you've reproduced and tested this and it actually fixes a
> >> bug? Not just seeing something that looks strange. I have a vague feeling it
> >> was intentional but looking at the code it looks wrong to me too.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback!
> >
> > This was found via code inspection. You are right that if nents == 1, or if nents > 1 but all segments happen to have the exact same length, this typo remains benign by pure coincidence.
> >
> > However, for a multi-segment scatterlist with varying lengths (e.g., a short 2KB head segment followed by standard 4KB segments), sg_dma_len(s) will mistakenly assign the 2KB head length to all subsequent 4KB segments. This will inevitably lead to silent data truncation or IOMMU page faults.
> >
> > Since sg_phys(s) correctly takes the current segment's address, sg_dma_len(s) should definitely use s->length to match it.
> >
> > I don't have a specific P2PDMA test rig to force multi-segment lists on hand right now, but the typo and its impact on varied segment lengths seem deterministic.
>
> Ok, yeah, I think you are correct. My tests that ran multiple segments
> happened to all have the same length. But I don't have the hardware I
> used at the moment so I can't test it either.
>
> Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Rongqing can you please send a proper series with both of these fixes
without threading so Joerg can pick them up?
Thanks,
Jason