Re: [PATCH] net: can: add missing urb->transfer_dma initialization

From: Yasushi SHOJI
Date: Sun Jul 25 2021 - 09:27:56 EST


Hi Pavel,

I've tested this patch on top of v5.14-rc2. All good.

Tested-by: Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Some nitpicks.

On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 7:36 PM Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yasushi reported, that his Microchip CAN Analyzer stopped working since
> commit 91c02557174b ("can: mcba_usb: fix memory leak in mcba_usb").
> The problem was in missing urb->transfer_dma initialization.
>
> In my previous patch to this driver I refactored mcba_usb_start() code to
> avoid leaking usb coherent buffers. To achive it, I passed local stack

achieve

> variable to usb_alloc_coherent() and then saved it to private array to
> correctly free all coherent buffers on ->close() call. But I forgot to
> inialize urb->transfer_dma with variable passed to usb_alloc_coherent().

initialize

> All of this was causing device to not work, since dma addr 0 is not valid
> and following log can be found on bug report page, which points exactly to
> problem described above.
>
> [ 33.862175] DMAR: [DMA Write] Request device [00:14.0] PASID ffffffff fault addr 0 [fault reason 05] PTE Write access is not set
>
> Bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990850
>
> Reported-by: Yasushi SHOJI <yasushi.shoji@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 91c02557174b ("can: mcba_usb: fix memory leak in mcba_usb")
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/can/usb/mcba_usb.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/mcba_usb.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/mcba_usb.c
> index a45865bd7254..a1a154c08b7f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/can/usb/mcba_usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/mcba_usb.c
> @@ -653,6 +653,8 @@ static int mcba_usb_start(struct mcba_priv *priv)
> break;
> }
>
> + urb->transfer_dma = buf_dma;
> +
> usb_fill_bulk_urb(urb, priv->udev,
> usb_rcvbulkpipe(priv->udev, MCBA_USB_EP_IN),
> buf, MCBA_USB_RX_BUFF_SIZE,
> --
> 2.32.0

Pavel, thanks again for your quick fix. :-)

Best,
--
yashi