On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 13:22:31 +1000 Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As a part of cleanup, the SPAPR TCE IOMMU subdriver releases preregistered > memory. If there is a bug in memory release, the loop in > tce_iommu_release() becomes infinite; this actually happened to me. > > This makes the loop finite and prints a warning on every failure to make > the code more bug prone. > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c | 10 +++------- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Should this have a stable/fixes tag? Looks like it's relevant to: 4b6fad7097f8 powerpc/mm/iommu, vfio/spapr: Put pages on VFIO container shutdown Also, not sure who you're wanting to take this since it was sent to ppc lists. If it's me, let me know, otherwise Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Alex > diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c > index b1a8ab3..ece0651 100644 > --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c > +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c > @@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ static void tce_iommu_release(void *iommu_data) > { > struct tce_container *container = iommu_data; > struct tce_iommu_group *tcegrp; > + struct tce_iommu_prereg *tcemem, *tmtmp; > long i; > > while (tce_groups_attached(container)) { > @@ -393,13 +394,8 @@ static void tce_iommu_release(void *iommu_data) > tce_iommu_free_table(container, tbl); > } > > - while (!list_empty(&container->prereg_list)) { > - struct tce_iommu_prereg *tcemem; > - > - tcemem = list_first_entry(&container->prereg_list, > - struct tce_iommu_prereg, next); > - WARN_ON_ONCE(tce_iommu_prereg_free(container, tcemem)); > - } > + list_for_each_entry_safe(tcemem, tmtmp, &container->prereg_list, next) > + WARN_ON(tce_iommu_prereg_free(container, tcemem)); > > tce_iommu_disable(container); > if (container->mm)