On Wed, 18 Apr 2018, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2018, David Miller wrote:
>
> > From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:44:25 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> > > The structure net_device is followed by arbitrary driver-specific data
> > > (accessible with the function netdev_priv). And for virtio-net, these
> > > driver-specific data must be in DMA memory.
> >
> > And we are saying that this assumption is wrong and needs to be
> > corrected.
>
> So, try to find all the networking drivers that to DMA to the private
> area.
>
> The problem here is that kvzalloc usually returns DMA-able area, but it
> may return non-DMA area rarely, if the memory is too fragmented. So, we
> are in a situation, where some networking drivers will randomly fail. Go
> and find them.
>
> Mikulas
Her I submit a patch that makes kvmalloc always use vmalloc if
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is defined.
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
The kvmalloc function tries to use kmalloc and falls back to vmalloc if
kmalloc fails.
Unfortunatelly, some kernel code has bugs - it uses kvmalloc and then
uses DMA-API on the returned memory or frees it with kfree. Such bugs were
found in the virtio-net driver, dm-integrity or RHEL7 powerpc-specific
code.
These bugs are hard to reproduce because vmalloc falls back to kmalloc
only if memory is fragmented.
In order to detect these bugs reliably I submit this patch that changes
kvmalloc to always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is turned on.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/util.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
Index: linux-2.6/mm/util.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/util.c 2018-04-18 15:46:23.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/util.c 2018-04-18 16:00:43.000000000 +0200
@@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap);
*/
void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
{
+#ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
gfp_t kmalloc_flags = flags;
void *ret;
@@ -426,6 +427,7 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t f
*/
if (ret || size <= PAGE_SIZE)
return ret;
+#endif
return __vmalloc_node_flags_caller(size, node, flags,
__builtin_return_address(0));
