Re: Kernel Panic in skb_release_data using genet

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi Florian,

Sorry for the late reply

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 02:33:17PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 6/2/2021 6:28 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 11:33:18AM +0200, nicolas saenz julienne wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2021-05-31 at 19:36 -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >>>> That is also how I boot my Pi4 at home, and I suspect you are right, if
> >>>> the VPU does not shut down GENET's DMA, and leaves buffer addresses in
> >>>> the on-chip descriptors that point to an address space that is managed
> >>>> totally differently by Linux, then we can have a serious problem and
> >>>> create some memory corruption when the ring is being reclaimed. I will
> >>>> run a few experiments to test that theory and there may be a solution
> >>>> using the SW_INIT reset controller to have a big reset of the controller
> >>>> before handing it over to the Linux driver.
> >>>
> >>> Adding a WARN_ON(reg & DMA_EN) in bcmgenet_dma_disable() has not shown
> >>> that the TX or RX DMA have been left running during the hand over from
> >>> the VPU to the kernel. I checked out drm-misc-next-2021-05-17 to reduce
> >>> as much as possible the differences between your set-up and my set-up
> >>> but so far have not been able to reproduce the crash in booting from NFS
> >>> repeatedly, I will try again.
> >>
> >> FWIW I can reproduce the error too. That said it's rather hard to reproduce,
> >> something in the order of 1 failure every 20 tries.
> > 
> > Yeah, it looks like it's only from a cold boot and comes in "bursts",
> > where you would get like 5 in a row and be done with it for a while.
> 
> Here are two patches that you could try exclusive from one another
> 
> 1) Limit GENET to a single queue
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> index fcca023f22e5..e400c12e6868 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> @@ -3652,6 +3652,12 @@ static int bcmgenet_change_carrier(struct
> net_device *dev, bool new_carrier)
>         return 0;
>  }
> 
> +static u16 bcmgenet_select_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff
> *skb,
> +                                struct net_device *sb_dev)
> +{
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static const struct net_device_ops bcmgenet_netdev_ops = {
>         .ndo_open               = bcmgenet_open,
>         .ndo_stop               = bcmgenet_close,
> @@ -3666,6 +3672,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops
> bcmgenet_netdev_ops = {
>  #endif
>         .ndo_get_stats          = bcmgenet_get_stats,
>         .ndo_change_carrier     = bcmgenet_change_carrier,
> +       .ndo_select_queue       = bcmgenet_select_queue,
>  };
> 
>  /* Array of GENET hardware parameters/characteristics */
> 
> 2) Ensure that all TX/RX queues are disabled upon DMA initialization
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> index fcca023f22e5..7f8a5996fbbb 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> @@ -3237,15 +3237,21 @@ static void bcmgenet_get_hw_addr(struct
> bcmgenet_priv *priv,
>  /* Returns a reusable dma control register value */
>  static u32 bcmgenet_dma_disable(struct bcmgenet_priv *priv)
>  {
> +       unsigned int i;
>         u32 reg;
>         u32 dma_ctrl;
> 
>         /* disable DMA */
>         dma_ctrl = 1 << (DESC_INDEX + DMA_RING_BUF_EN_SHIFT) | DMA_EN;
> +       for (i = 0; i < priv->hw_params->tx_queues; i++)
> +               dma_ctrl |= (1 << (i + DMA_RING_BUF_EN_SHIFT));
>         reg = bcmgenet_tdma_readl(priv, DMA_CTRL);
>         reg &= ~dma_ctrl;
>         bcmgenet_tdma_writel(priv, reg, DMA_CTRL);
> 
> +       dma_ctrl = 1 << (DESC_INDEX + DMA_RING_BUF_EN_SHIFT) | DMA_EN;
> +       for (i = 0; i < priv->hw_params->rx_queues; i++)
> +               dma_ctrl |= (1 << (i + DMA_RING_BUF_EN_SHIFT));
>         reg = bcmgenet_rdma_readl(priv, DMA_CTRL);
>         reg &= ~dma_ctrl;
>         bcmgenet_rdma_writel(priv, reg, DMA_CTRL);

I had a bunch of issues popping up today so I took the occasion to test
those patches. The first one doesn't change anything, I still had the
crash occurring with it. With the second applied (in addition), it seems
like it's fixed. I'll keep testing and will let you know.

Maxime

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