Hi Logan, On 29.05.2020 21:05, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > On 2020-05-29 6:45 a.m., Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 06:00:44PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: >>>> This issue is most likely in the i915 driver and is most likely caused by the driver not respecting the return value of the dma_map_ops::map_sg function. You can see the driver ignoring the return value here: >>>> https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=ca25a34b-97f7b813-ca242804-0cc47a31c8b4-0ecdffc9f56851e1&q=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux%2Fblob%2F7e0165b2f1a912a06e381e91f0f4e495f4ac3736%2Fdrivers%2Fgpu%2Fdrm%2Fi915%2Fgem%2Fi915_gem_dmabuf.c%23L51 >>>> >>>> Previously this didn’t cause issues because the intel map_sg always returned the same number of elements as the input scatter gather list but with the change to this dma-iommu api this is no longer the case. I wasn’t able to track the bug down to a specific line of code unfortunately. >> Mark did a big audit into the map_sg API abuse and initially had >> some i915 patches, but then gave up on them with this comment: >> >> "The biggest TODO is DRM/i915 driver and I don't feel brave enough to fix >> it fully. The driver creatively uses sg_table->orig_nents to store the >> size of the allocate scatterlist and ignores the number of the entries >> returned by dma_map_sg function. In this patchset I only fixed the >> sg_table objects exported by dmabuf related functions. I hope that I >> didn't break anything there." >> >> it would be really nice if the i915 maintainers could help with sorting >> that API abuse out. >> > I agree completely that the API abuse should be sorted out, but I think > that's much larger than just the i915 driver. Pretty much every dma-buf > map_dma_buf implementation I looked at ignores the returned nents of > sg_attrs. This sucks, but I don't think it's the bug Tom ran into. See: > > amdgpu_dma_buf_map > armada_gem_prime_map_dma_buf > drm_gem_map_dma_buf > i915_gem_map_dma_buf > tegra_gem_prime_map_dma_buf > > So this should probably be addressed by the whole GPU community. Patches are pending: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20200513132114.6046-1-m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx/T/ > However, as Robin pointed out, there are other ugly tricks like stopping > iterating through the SGL when sg_dma_len() is zero. For example, the > AMD driver appears to use drm_prime_sg_to_page_addr_arrays() which does > this trick and thus likely isn't buggy (otherwise, I'd expect someone to > have complained by now seeing AMD has already switched to IOMMU-DMA. I'm not sure that this is a trick. Stopping at zero sg_dma_len() was somewhere documented. > As I tried to point out in my previous email, i915 does not do this > trick. In fact, it completely ignores sg_dma_len() and is thus > completely broken. See i915_scatterlist.h and the __sgt_iter() function. > So it doesn't sound to me like Mark's fix would address the issue at > all. Per my previous email, I'd guess that it can be fixed simply by > adjusting the __sgt_iter() function to do something more sensible. > (Better yet, if possible, ditch __sgt_iter() and use the common DRM > function that AMD uses). > > This would at least allow us to make progress with Tom's IOMMU-DMA patch > set and once that gets in, it will be harder for other drivers to make > the same mistake. Best regards -- Marek Szyprowski, PhD Samsung R&D Institute Poland
