Re: Validating dma_mmap_coherent() parameters before calling (was Re: WARNING in memtype_reserve)

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu May 14 2020 - 03:47:04 EST


On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 08:31:58AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 08:27:50AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 08:14:17AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Guys, can you please start formal thread on this? I have no
> > > idea where this came from and what the rationale is. Btw, if the
> > > pfn is crap in dma_direct_mmap then the dma_addr_t passed in is
> > > crap, as it is derived from that. What is the caller, and how is
> > > this triggered?
> >
> >
> > Ok, to summarize, commit 2bef9aed6f0e ("usb: usbfs: correct kernel->user
> > page attribute mismatch") changed a call from remap_pfn_range() to
> > dma_mmap_coherent() for usb data buffers being sent from userspace.
>
> I only need to look at the commit for 3 seconds to tell you that it is
> completely buggy. While using dma_mmap_coherent is fundamentally the
> right thing and absolutely required for dma_alloc_* allocations, USB
> also uses it's own local gen pool allocator or plain kmalloc for not
> DMA capable controller. This need to use remap_pfn_range. I'm pretty
> sure you hit one of those cases.
>
> The logic should be something like:
>
> if (hcd->localmem_pool || !hcd_uses_dma(hcd))
> remap_pfn_range()
> else
> dma_mmap_coherent()

Ok, that's simple enough, patch is below.

Jeremy, any objection to this change?

thanks,

greg k-h


diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
index b9db9812d6c5..d93d94d7ff50 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
@@ -251,9 +251,19 @@ static int usbdev_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
usbm->vma_use_count = 1;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&usbm->memlist);

- if (dma_mmap_coherent(hcd->self.sysdev, vma, mem, dma_handle, size)) {
- dec_usb_memory_use_count(usbm, &usbm->vma_use_count);
- return -EAGAIN;
+ if (hcd->localmem_pool || !hcd_uses_dma(hcd)) {
+ if (remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start,
+ virt_to_phys(usbm->mem) >> PAGE_SHIFT,
+ size, vma->vm_page_prot) < 0) {
+ dec_usb_memory_use_count(usbm, &usbm->vma_use_count);
+ return -EAGAIN;
+ }
+ } else {
+ if (dma_mmap_coherent(hcd->self.sysdev, vma, mem, dma_handle,
+ size)) {
+ dec_usb_memory_use_count(usbm, &usbm->vma_use_count);
+ return -EAGAIN;
+ }
}

vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO;