Re: [RFC 1/1] swiotlb: Replace BUG_ON() with graceful error handling

[Robin Murphy]

On 2024-11-22 7:13 pm, Brian Johannesmeyer wrote:
> Replace the BUG_ON() assertion in swiotlb_release_slots() with a
> conditional check and return. This change prevents a corrupted tlb_addr
> from causing a kernel panic.

Hmm, looking again, how exactly *does* this happen? To get here from 
swiotlb_unmap_single(), swiotlb_find_pool() has already determined that 
"tlb_addr" is within the range belonging to "mem", so if it is somehow 
possible for it to then convert into an out-of-bounds index, maybe that 
does actually imply some bug in SWIOTLB itself where "mem" is 
misconfigured...

Thanks,
Robin.

> Co-developed-by: Raphael Isemann <teemperor@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Raphael Isemann <teemperor@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Johannesmeyer <bjohannesmeyer@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 6 +++++-
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
> index aa0a4a220719..54b4f9665772 100644
> --- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
> +++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
> @@ -834,7 +834,11 @@ static void swiotlb_release_slots(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr)
>   	 * While returning the entries to the free list, we merge the entries
>   	 * with slots below and above the pool being returned.
>   	 */
> -	BUG_ON(aindex >= mem->nareas);
> +	if (unlikely(aindex >= mem->nareas)) {
> +		dev_err(dev, "%s: invalid area index (%d >= %d)\n", __func__,
> +			aindex, mem->nareas);
> +		return;
> +	}
>   
>   	spin_lock_irqsave(&area->lock, flags);
>   	if (index + nslots < ALIGN(index + 1, IO_TLB_SEGSIZE))