Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: idxd: Do not call DMX TX callbacks during workqueue disable

[Dave Jiang]

On 12/2/2022 11:25 AM, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> On driver unload any pending descriptors are flushed and pending
> DMA descriptors are explicitly completed:
> idxd_dmaengine_drv_remove() ->
> 	drv_disable_wq() ->
> 		idxd_wq_free_irq() ->
> 			idxd_flush_pending_descs() ->
> 				idxd_dma_complete_txd()
>
> With this done during driver unload any remaining descriptor is
> likely stuck and can be dropped. Even so, the descriptor may still
> have a callback set that could no longer be accessible. An
> example of such a problem is when the dmatest fails and the dmatest
> module is unloaded. The failure of dmatest leaves descriptors with
> dma_async_tx_descriptor::callback pointing to code that no longer
> exist. This causes a page fault as below at the time the IDXD driver
> is unloaded when it attempts to run the callback:
>   BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffc0665190
>   #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
>   #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
>
> Fix this by clearing the callback pointers on the transmit
> descriptors only when workqueue is disabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> History of refactoring made the Fixes: hard to identify by me.
>
>   drivers/dma/idxd/device.c | 10 ++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/idxd/device.c b/drivers/dma/idxd/device.c
> index b4d7bb923a40..2ac71a34fa34 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/idxd/device.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/idxd/device.c
> @@ -1156,6 +1156,7 @@ int idxd_device_load_config(struct idxd_device *idxd)
>   
>   static void idxd_flush_pending_descs(struct idxd_irq_entry *ie)
>   {
> +	struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx;
>   	struct idxd_desc *desc, *itr;
>   	struct llist_node *head;
>   	LIST_HEAD(flist);
> @@ -1175,6 +1176,15 @@ static void idxd_flush_pending_descs(struct idxd_irq_entry *ie)
>   	list_for_each_entry_safe(desc, itr, &flist, list) {
>   		list_del(&desc->list);
>   		ctype = desc->completion->status ? IDXD_COMPLETE_NORMAL : IDXD_COMPLETE_ABORT;
> +		/*
> +		 * wq is being disabled. Any remaining descriptors are
> +		 * likely to be stuck and can be dropped. callback could
> +		 * point to code that is no longer accessible, for example
> +		 * if dmatest module has been unloaded.
> +		 */
> +		tx = &desc->txd;
> +		tx->callback = NULL;
> +		tx->callback_result = NULL;
>   		idxd_dma_complete_txd(desc, ctype, true);
>   	}
>   }