Re: dm-bufio: adjust the reserved buffer for dm-verify-target.

[Mike Snitzer]

On Wed, Aug 08 2018 at  2:40am -0400,
xiao jin <jin.xiao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We hit the BUG() report at include/linux/scatterlist.h:144!
> The callback is as bellow:
>   => verity_work
>   => verity_hash_for_block
>   => verity_verify_level
>   => verity_hash
>   => verity_hash_update
>   => sg_init_one
>   => sg_set_buf
> 
> More debug shows the root cause. When creating dufio client it
> uses the __vmalloc() to allocate the buffer data for the reserved
> dm_buffer. The buffer that allocated by the __vmalloc() is invalid
> according to the __virt_addr_valid().
> 
> Mostly the reserved dm_buffer is not touched. But occasionally
> it might fail to allocate the dm_buffer data when we try to
> allocate in the __alloc_buffer_wait_no_callback(). Then it has
> to take the reserved dm_buffer for usage. Finally it reports the
> BUG() as virt_addr_valid() detects the buffer data address is invalid.
> 
> The patch is to adjust the reserved buffer for dm-verity-target. We
> allocated two dm_buffers into the reserved buffers list when creating
> the buffer interface. The first dm_buffer in the reserved buffer list
> is allocated by the __vmalloc(), it's not used after that. The second
> dm_buffer in the reserved buffer list is allocated by the
> __get_free_pages() which can be consumed after that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: xiao jin <jin.xiao@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm-bufio.c         | 4 ++--
>  drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
> index dc385b7..3b7ca5e 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
> @@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ static struct dm_buffer *__alloc_buffer_wait_no_callback(struct dm_bufio_client
>  			tried_noio_alloc = true;
>  		}
>  
> -		if (!list_empty(&c->reserved_buffers)) {
> +		if (!c->need_reserved_buffers) {
>  			b = list_entry(c->reserved_buffers.next,
>  				       struct dm_buffer, lru_list);
>  			list_del(&b->lru_list);
> @@ -1701,7 +1701,7 @@ struct dm_bufio_client *dm_bufio_client_create(struct block_device *bdev, unsign
>  		goto bad;
>  	}
>  
> -	while (c->need_reserved_buffers) {
> +	if (list_empty(&c->reserved_buffers)) {
>  		struct dm_buffer *b = alloc_buffer(c, GFP_KERNEL);
>  
>  		if (!b) {

Point was to allocate N buffers (as accounted in
c->need_reserved_buffers).  This change just allocates a single one.
Why?

Your header isn't clear on this at all.

> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> index 12decdbd7..40c66fc 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> @@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@ static int verity_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv)
>  	v->hash_blocks = hash_position;
>  
>  	v->bufio = dm_bufio_client_create(v->hash_dev->bdev,
> -		1 << v->hash_dev_block_bits, 1, sizeof(struct buffer_aux),
> +		1 << v->hash_dev_block_bits, 2, sizeof(struct buffer_aux),
>  		dm_bufio_alloc_callback, NULL);
>  	if (IS_ERR(v->bufio)) {
>  		ti->error = "Cannot initialize dm-bufio";
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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It isn't at all clear from my initial review that what you're doing
makes any sense.

Seems like you're just papering over bufio's use of !__virt_addr_valid()
memory in unintuitive ways.

Mikulas, can you see a better way forward?

Mike