Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: fix DMA unsafe buffer issue in spi_nor_read_sfdp()

[Boris Brezillon]

On Wed,  6 Sep 2017 23:45:02 +0200
Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> spi_nor_read_sfdp() calls nor->read() to read the SFDP data.
> When the m25p80 driver is used (pretty common case), nor->read() is then
> implemented by the m25p80_read() function, which is likely to initialize a
> 'struct spi_transfer' from its buf argument before appending this
> structure inside the 'struct spi_message' argument of spi_sync().
> 
> Besides the SPI sub-system states that both .tx_buf and .rx_buf members of
> 'struct spi_transfer' must point into dma-safe memory. However, two of the
> three calls of spi_nor_read_sfdp() were given pointers to stack allocated
> memory as buf argument, hence not in a dma-safe area.
> Hopefully, the third and last call of spi_nor_read_sfdp() was already
> given a kmalloc'ed buffer argument, hence dma-safe.
> 
> So this patch fixes this issue by introducing a
> spi_nor_read_sfdp_dma_unsafe() function which simply wraps the existing
> spi_nor_read_sfdp() function and uses some kmalloc'ed memory as a bounce
> buffer.
> 
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Missing

Fixes: f384b352cbf0310f ("mtd: spi-nor: parse Serial Flash Discoverable Parameters (SFDP) tables")

> Signed-off-by: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Compiled but not tested yet!
> 
>  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> index cf1d4a15e10a..05254dd6a4a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> @@ -1784,7 +1784,7 @@ spi_nor_set_pp_settings(struct spi_nor_pp_command *pp,
>   * @nor:	pointer to a 'struct spi_nor'
>   * @addr:	offset in the SFDP area to start reading data from
>   * @len:	number of bytes to read
> - * @buf:	buffer where the SFDP data are copied into
> + * @buf:	buffer where the SFDP data are copied into (dma-safe memory)
>   *
>   * Whatever the actual numbers of bytes for address and dummy cycles are
>   * for (Fast) Read commands, the Read SFDP (5Ah) instruction is always
> @@ -1829,6 +1829,36 @@ static int spi_nor_read_sfdp(struct spi_nor *nor, u32 addr,
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * spi_nor_read_sfdp_dma_unsafe() - read Serial Flash Discoverable Parameters.
> + * @nor:	pointer to a 'struct spi_nor'
> + * @addr:	offset in the SFDP area to start reading data from
> + * @len:	number of bytes to read
> + * @buf:	buffer where the SFDP data are copied into
> + *
> + * Wrap spi_nor_read_sfdp() using a kmalloc'ed bounce buffer as @buf is now not
> + * guaranteed to be dma-safe.
> + *
> + * Return: -ENOMEM if kmalloc() fails, the return code of spi_nor_read_sfdp()
> + *          otherwise.
> + */
> +static int spi_nor_read_sfdp_dma_unsafe(struct spi_nor *nor, u32 addr,
> +					size_t len, void *buf)
> +{
> +	void *dma_safe_buf;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	dma_safe_buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!dma_safe_buf)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	ret = spi_nor_read_sfdp(nor, addr, len, dma_safe_buf);
> +	memcpy(buf, dma_safe_buf, len);
> +	kfree(dma_safe_buf);
> +
> +	return ret;
> +}

Hm, do we really need to add this function? I would just kmalloc the bfpt
and header objects in spi_nor_parse_bfpt(), which would avoid the extra
heap-to-stack copy and also simplify this patch.

I understand that you want to generically address the problem, but AFAICT
this patch is not doing that since the user has to explicitly call
spi_nor_read_sfdp_dma_unsafe(), and I'm not even sure
spi_nor_read_sfdp_dma_unsafe() can/will be re-used in the generic solution
you envision.

Let's try to keep the fix as simple as possible and think about a better
approach afterwards.

> +
>  struct sfdp_parameter_header {
>  	u8		id_lsb;
>  	u8		minor;
> @@ -2101,7 +2131,7 @@ static int spi_nor_parse_bfpt(struct spi_nor *nor,
>  		    bfpt_header->length * sizeof(u32));
>  	addr = SFDP_PARAM_HEADER_PTP(bfpt_header);
>  	memset(&bfpt, 0, sizeof(bfpt));
> -	err = spi_nor_read_sfdp(nor,  addr, len, &bfpt);
> +	err = spi_nor_read_sfdp_dma_unsafe(nor,  addr, len, &bfpt);
>  	if (err < 0)
>  		return err;
>  
> @@ -2243,7 +2273,7 @@ static int spi_nor_parse_sfdp(struct spi_nor *nor,
>  	int i, err;
>  
>  	/* Get the SFDP header. */
> -	err = spi_nor_read_sfdp(nor, 0, sizeof(header), &header);
> +	err = spi_nor_read_sfdp_dma_unsafe(nor, 0, sizeof(header), &header);
>  	if (err < 0)
>  		return err;
>