Re: [PATCH] xen-swiotlb: exchange memory with Xen only when pages are contiguous

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Wed Oct 24 2018 - 09:03:11 EST


On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 08:09:04PM -0700, Joe Jin wrote:
> Commit 4855c92dbb7 "xen-swiotlb: fix the check condition for
> xen_swiotlb_free_coherent" only fixed memory address check condition
> on xen_swiotlb_free_coherent(), when memory was not physically
> contiguous and tried to exchanged with Xen via
> xen_destroy_contiguous_region it will lead kernel panic.

s/it will lead/which lead to/?

>
> The correct check condition should be memory is in DMA area and
> physically contiguous.

"The correct check condition to make Xen hypercall to revert the
memory back from its 32-bit pool is if it is:
1) Above its DMA bit mask (for example 32-bit devices can only address
up to 4GB, and we may want 4GB+2K), and
2) If it not physically contingous

N.B. The logic in the code is inverted, which leads to all sorts of
confusions."

Does that sound correct?

>
> Thank you Boris for pointing it out.
>

Fixes: 4855c92dbb7 ("xen-sw..") ?

> Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reported-by: Boris Ostrovs... ?
> Cc: Christoph Helwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: John Sobecki <john.sobecki@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c b/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> index f5c1af4ce9ab..aed92fa019f9 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> @@ -357,8 +357,8 @@ xen_swiotlb_free_coherent(struct device *hwdev, size_t size, void *vaddr,
> /* Convert the size to actually allocated. */
> size = 1UL << (order + XEN_PAGE_SHIFT);
>
> - if (((dev_addr + size - 1 <= dma_mask)) ||
> - range_straddles_page_boundary(phys, size))
> + if ((dev_addr + size - 1 <= dma_mask) &&
> + !range_straddles_page_boundary(phys, size))
> xen_destroy_contiguous_region(phys, order);
>
> xen_free_coherent_pages(hwdev, size, vaddr, (dma_addr_t)phys, attrs);
> --
> 2.17.1 (Apple Git-112)
>