Re: [PATCH V10 06/12] of: device: Fix overflow of coherent_dma_mask

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On 04/07/17 07:46, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 06/04/17 20:34, Frank Rowand wrote:
>> On 04/06/17 04:01, Sricharan R wrote:
>>> Hi Frank,
>>>
>>> On 4/6/2017 12:31 PM, Frank Rowand wrote:
>>>> On 04/04/17 03:18, Sricharan R wrote:
>>>>> Size of the dma-range is calculated as coherent_dma_mask + 1
>>>>> and passed to arch_setup_dma_ops further. It overflows when
>>>>> the coherent_dma_mask is set for full 64 bits 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF,
>>>>> resulting in size getting passed as 0 wrongly. Fix this by
>>>>> passsing in max(mask, mask + 1). Note that in this case
>>>>> when the mask is set to full 64bits, we will be passing the mask
>>>>> itself to arch_setup_dma_ops instead of the size. The real fix
>>>>> for this should be to make arch_setup_dma_ops receive the
>>>>> mask and handle it, to be done in the future.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Sricharan R <sricharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  drivers/of/device.c | 2 +-
>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/of/device.c b/drivers/of/device.c
>>>>> index c17c19d..c2ae6bb 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/of/device.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/of/device.c
>>>>> @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ void of_dma_configure(struct device *dev, struct device_node *np)
>>>>>      ret = of_dma_get_range(np, &dma_addr, &paddr, &size);
>>>>>      if (ret < 0) {
>>>>>          dma_addr = offset = 0;
>>>>> -        size = dev->coherent_dma_mask + 1;
>>>>> +        size = max(dev->coherent_dma_mask, dev->coherent_dma_mask + 1);
>>>>>      } else {
>>>>>          offset = PFN_DOWN(paddr - dma_addr);
>>>>>          dev_dbg(dev, "dma_pfn_offset(%#08lx)\n", offset);
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> NACK.
>>>>
>>>> Passing an invalid size to arch_setup_dma_ops() is only part of the problem.
>>>> size is also used in of_dma_configure() before calling arch_setup_dma_ops():
>>>>
>>>>         dev->coherent_dma_mask = min(dev->coherent_dma_mask,
>>>>                                      DMA_BIT_MASK(ilog2(dma_addr + size)));
>>>>         *dev->dma_mask = min((*dev->dma_mask),
>>>>                              DMA_BIT_MASK(ilog2(dma_addr + size)));
>>>>
>>>> which would be incorrect for size == 0xffffffffffffffffULL when
>>>> dma_addr != 0.  So the proposed fix really is not papering over
>>>> the base problem very well.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, but with your fix for of_dma_get_range and the above fix,
>>> dma_addr will be '0' when size = 0xffffffffffffffffULL,
>>> but DMA_BIT_MASK(ilog2(dma_addr + size)) would be wrong though,
>>> making coherent_dma_mask to be smaller 0x7fffffffffffffffULL.
>>
>> Yes, that was my point.  Setting size to 0x7fffffffffffffffULL
>> affects several places.  Another potential location (based only
>> on the function header comment, not from reading the code) is
>> iommu_dma_init_domain().  The header comment says:
>>
>>     * @base and @size should be exact multiples of IOMMU page granularity to
>>     * avoid rounding surprises.
> 
> That is really only referring to the fact that some of the work done
> therein involves truncation to PFNs, so anyone passing in non-exact
> values expecting them to round a particular way may get things off by a
> page one way or the other. It's not going to have much practical
> significance for real devices (in particular since size is used more as
> a sanity check than any kind of actual limit there).
> 
>> I have not read enough context to really understand of_dma_configure(), but
>> it seems there is yet another issue in how the error return case from
>> of_dma_get_range() is handled (with the existing code, as well as if
>> my patch gets accepted).  An error return value can mean _either_
>> there is no dma-ranges property _or_ "an other problem occurred".  Should
>> the "an other problem occurred" case be handled by defaulting size to
>> a value based on dev->coherent_dma_mask (the current case) or should the
>> attempt to set up the DMA configuration just fail?
> 
> There is indeed a lot wrong with of_dma_configure() and
> arch_setup_dma_ops(), but fixing those is beyond the scope of this
> series. This is just working around a latent bug in the one specific
> case where a value is *not* derived from DT. Any DT which worked before
> still works; any DT which made of_dma_configure() go wrong before still
> makes of_dma_configure() go wrong exactly the same.
> 
> Whilst it's not ideal, since a DMA mask basically represents the maximum
> size of address that that particular device can be given, I can't see it
> making any practical difference for a full 64-bit DMA mask to be trimmed
> down to 63 bits upon re-probing - no system is likely to have that many
> physical address bits anyway, and I don't think any IOMMUs support that
> large an IOVA space either, so as long as it's still big enough to cover
> "everything", it'll be OK.
> 
> Of course, whether DMA_BIT_MASK(ilog2(dma_addr + size)) is the right
> thing to do in the first place is yet another matter, as there are
> plenty of cases where it results in something which can't reach the
> given range at all, but again, this isn't the place. Much as I'm keen to
> get the behaviour of of_dma_configure() sorted out properly, it doesn't
> seem reasonable that that should suddenly block this
> almost-entirely-orthogonal series that various other work has been
> waiting on for some time now. The WIP patch I have for
> arch_setup_dma_ops() already touches 3 architectures and 4 other
> subsystems...

In a reply to my original NACK email, I just now retracted the NACK,
but with a requested change for readability.

I buy your analysis and argument here.  The patch will improve things
a little, but it will be good to revisit of_dma_configure() in the
future to further clean things up.

-Frank

> 
> Robin.
> 
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>  Sricharan
>>>
>>>> I agree that the proper solution involves passing a mask instead
>>>> of a size to arch_setup_dma_ops().
>>>>
>>>
>>
> 
> 

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