Re: [PATCH] dma-mapping: skip USB devices when configuring DMA during probe

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Thu Aug 03 2017 - 08:37:44 EST


On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 12:50:20PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Hi Johan,
>
> On 03/08/17 11:05, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > USB devices use the DMA mask and offset of the controller, which have
> > already been setup when a device is probed. Note that modifying the mask
> > of a USB device would change the mask for the controller (and all
> > devices on the bus) as the mask is literally shared.
>
> If I understand the situation correctly, some USB devices have to
> pretend to be DMA masters in order to interact properly with subsystems
> that make DMA mapping calls directly, because those subsystems don't
> have access to the 'real' DMA master sysdev (and shouldn't have to know
> anyway). If that is the case, then there's really a much more general
> problem, because correct DMA API operation can depend on other things
> like IOMMU stuff and archdata which cannot be arbitrarily copied or
> shared between devices.

Right, take a look at usb_alloc_dev() and commit b44bbc46a8bb ("usb:
core: setup dma_pfn_offset for USB devices and, interfaces") for some
background. Note that we've been setting dma_mask this way since before
git.

> What with things like the DWC3 glue layer device mess as well, the
> feeling I'm getting is that this probably needs addressing at the driver
> core/DMA API level - if we had some flag in struct device to say "I can
> effectively do DMA, but proxied through my parent", the DMA API could
> pick that up and internally chase down the correct DMA master device,
> and we could then probably clean up a lot of the "sysdev"-type gunk in
> various driver layers as well.
>
> For expedience of keeping the existing hack working, though, I think
> this patch is OK.

Yes, we should fix the immediate regression first.

> > Since commit 2bf698671205 ("USB: of: fix root-hub device-tree node
> > handling"), of_dma_configure() would be called also for root hubs, which
> > use the device node of the controller. A separate bug that makes
> > of_dma_configure() generate a 30-bit DMA mask from the RPI3's
> > "dma-ranges" would thus set a broken mask also for the controller. This
> > in turn leads to USB devices failing to enumerate when control transfers
> > fail:
>
> If we're calling out that (long-standing) bug in particular, it might be
> worth clarifying that it's benign for the HCD itself because the dwc2
> driver still sets a 32-bit mask afterwards on probe - the breakage is
> specifically from the subsequent of_dma_configure() call with the root
> hub resetting the HCD's mask again *after* the HCD driver has configured
> it (and started to perform DMA), which is just fundamentally wrong
> regardless of what it ends up set to.

Good point, I'll amend this paragraph.

> > dwc2 3f980000.usb: Cannot do DMA to address 0x000000003a166a00
> >
> > Fix this, and similar future problems, by simply skipping USB devices
> > when dma_configure() is called during probe.
> >
> > Fixes: 09515ef5ddad ("of/acpi: Configure dma operations at probe time for platform/amba/pci bus devices")
> > Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.12
> > Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Sricharan R <sricharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/base/dma-mapping.c | 8 ++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/dma-mapping.c b/drivers/base/dma-mapping.c
> > index b555ff9dd8fc..c6cde7e79599 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/dma-mapping.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/dma-mapping.c
> > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> > #include <linux/gfp.h>
> > #include <linux/of_device.h>
> > #include <linux/slab.h>
> > +#include <linux/usb.h>
> > #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> >
> > /*
> > @@ -345,6 +346,10 @@ int dma_configure(struct device *dev)
> > enum dev_dma_attr attr;
> > int ret = 0;
> >
> > + /* USB devices share the controller's mask. */
> > + if (dev->bus == &usb_bus_type)
>
> Maybe a dev_is_usb() helper to mimic dev_is_pci()?

Yeah, I considered that but figured it wasn't essential for a minimal
patch marked for stable, but then again, such a macro would be
straight-forward enough. I'll respin.

> > + return 0;
> > +
> > if (dev_is_pci(dev)) {
> > bridge = pci_get_host_bridge_device(to_pci_dev(dev));
> > dma_dev = bridge;
> > @@ -369,6 +374,9 @@ int dma_configure(struct device *dev)
> >
> > void dma_deconfigure(struct device *dev)
> > {
> > + if (dev->bus == &usb_bus_type)
> > + return;
> > +
> > of_dma_deconfigure(dev);
> > acpi_dma_deconfigure(dev);
> > }

Thanks,
Johan