Re: [PATCH v2] dma-buf: dma-heap: Add a size check for allocation

[Sumit Semwal]

Hello Guangming,

On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 12:05, <guangming.cao@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Guangming.Cao <guangming.cao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On Tue, 2022-01-04 at 08:47 +0100, Christian K鰊ig wrote:
> > Am 03.01.22 um 19:57 schrieb John Stultz:
> > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 1:52 AM <guangming.cao@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > From: Guangming <Guangming.Cao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for submitting this!
> > >
> > > > Add a size check for allcation since the allocation size is
> > >
> > > nit: "allocation" above.
> > >
> > > > always less than the total DRAM size.
> > >
> > > In general, it might be good to add more context to the commit
> > > message
> > > to better answer *why* this change is needed rather than what the
> > > change is doing.  ie: What negative thing happens without this
> > > change?
> > > And so how does this change avoid or improve things?
> >
> > Completely agree, just one little addition: Could you also add this
> > why
> > as comment to the code?
> >
> > When we stumble over this five years from now it is absolutely not
> > obvious why we do this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Christian.
> >
> Thanks for your reply!
> I will update the related reason in the patch later.
>
> The reason for adding this check is that we met a case that the user
> sent an invalid size(It seems it's a negative value, MSB is 0xff, it's
> larger than DRAM size after convert it to size_t) to dma-heap to alloc
> memory, and this allocation was running on a process(such as "gralloc"
> on Android device) can't be killed by OOM flow, and we also couldn't
> find the related dmabuf in "dma_buf_debug_show" because the related
> dmabuf was not exported yet since the allocation is still on going.
>
> Since this invalid argument case can be prevented at dma-heap side, so,
> I added this size check, and moreover, to let debug it easily, I also
> added logs when size is bigger than a threshold we set in mtk system
> heap.
> If you think that print logs in dma-heap framework is better, I will
> update it in next version.
>
> If you have better solution(such as dump the size under allocating
> in "dma_buf_debug_show", which maybe need add global variable to record
> it), please kindly let me know.

Thank you for the patch!

I think just adding the reasoning above as the commit message and a
comment in the code should be enough for now; the debug parts may be
easy to add in case someone runs into issues.

> Thanks :)
> Guangming

Best,
Sumit.

>
> > >
> > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Guangming <Guangming.Cao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: jianjiao zeng <jianjiao.zeng@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > v2: 1. update size limitation as total_dram page size.
> > > >      2. update commit message
> > > > ---
> > > >   drivers/dma-buf/dma-heap.c | 2 ++
> > > >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-heap.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-
> > > > heap.c
> > > > index 56bf5ad01ad5..e39d2be98d69 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-heap.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-heap.c
> > > > @@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ static int dma_heap_buffer_alloc(struct
> > > > dma_heap *heap, size_t len,
> > > >          struct dma_buf *dmabuf;
> > > >          int fd;
> > > >
> > > > +       if (len / PAGE_SIZE > totalram_pages())
> > > > +               return -EINVAL;
> > >
> > > This seems sane. I know ION used to have some 1/2 of memory cap to
> > > avoid unnecessary memory pressure on crazy allocations.
> > >
> > > Could you send again with an improved commit message?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > -john
> >
> >



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Thanks and regards,

Sumit Semwal (he / him)
Tech Lead - LCG, Vertical Technologies
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