On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 9:31 PM Arnaud POULIQUEN <arnaud.pouliquen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Mickael, Jason, > > On 11/23/21 7:15 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 05:08:12PM +0100, Arnaud Pouliquen wrote: > >> For RX virtqueue, the used length is validated in all the three paths > >> (big, small and mergeable). For control vq, we never tries to use used > >> length. So this patch forbids the core to validate the used length. > > > > Jason commented on this. This is copy paste from virtio net > > where the change was merely an optimization. > > > > Right, I did it too fast last night (European time) to share the regression as > soon as possible. > For that, I copied and pasted the first commit I found related to the problem. > Need to rework this. > > >> Without patch the rpmsg client sample does not work. > > > > Hmm that's not enough of a description. Could you please > > provide more detail? Does rpmsg device set used length to a > > value > dma read buffer size? what kind of error message > > do you get? what are the plans to fix the device? > > Let's me explain the context. > I run the rpmsg client sample test to communicate with a remote processor > that runs a Zephyr FW designed to answer to the Linux kernel driver sample. > > The Zephyr is relying on OpenAMP library to implement the RPMsg and VirtIO layers. > > In TX direction (Linux to Zephyr) 8 buffers of 512 bytes are allocated. > The first 8 RPMsg sent are OK. But when virtio loop back the the TX buffer index > 0 (so already used and free one time) the following error occurs in > virtqueue_get_buf_ctx_split[1]: > " virtio_rpmsg_bus virtio0: output:used len 28 is larger than in buflen 0" > > I have investigated the problem further today. Here is my analysis > > rpmsg_send_offchannel_raw > -> virtqueue_add_outbuf > -> virtqueue_add > -> virtqueue_add_split > Here we use the "out_sgs" (in_sgs == 0) > buflen is not incremented in loop [2] > We don't enter in loop [3] as "in_sgs == 0" > consequence is that vq->buflen[head] is set to 0 [4] > > [1] > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.16-rc2/source/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c#L799 > [2] > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.16-rc2/source/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c#L551 > [3] > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.16-rc2/source/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c#L567 > [4] > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.16-rc2/source/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c#L622 > > > An alternative to fix the issue is to set buflen in loop 2, but I'm not enough > expert to ensure that this will not have any side effect... > > @@ -559,10 +559,11 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct virtqueue *_vq, > * table since it use stream DMA mapping. > */ > i = virtqueue_add_desc_split(_vq, desc, i, addr, sg->length, > VRING_DESC_F_NEXT, > indirect); > + buflen += sg->length; This is not what spec what: "Each entry in the ring is a pair: id indicates the head entry of the descriptor chain describing the buffer (this matches an entry placed in the available ring by the guest earlier), and len the total of bytes written into the buffer." For TX, the used length should be 0. > } > } > for (; n < (out_sgs + in_sgs); n++) { > > So can you tell me if you prefer me to send a V2 updating the commit message or > a new message to fix virtio_ring (or both)? See above, for the driver side, the suppress_used_validation is sufficient. For the device side, it needs to be fixed (0 for TX used length) too. Thanks > > Thanks, > Arnaud > > > > >> Fixes: 939779f5152d ("virtio_ring: validate used buffer length") > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Arnaud Pouliquen <arnaud.pouliquen@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> --- > >> base-commit: fa55b7dcdc43c1aa1ba12bca9d2dd4318c2a0dbf > >> --- > >> drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c | 1 + > >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > >> > >> diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c b/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c > >> index 9c112aa65040..5f73f19c2c38 100644 > >> --- a/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c > >> +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c > >> @@ -1054,6 +1054,7 @@ static struct virtio_driver virtio_ipc_driver = { > >> .feature_table_size = ARRAY_SIZE(features), > >> .driver.name = KBUILD_MODNAME, > >> .driver.owner = THIS_MODULE, > >> + .suppress_used_validation = true, > >> .id_table = id_table, > >> .probe = rpmsg_probe, > >> .remove = rpmsg_remove, > >> -- > >> 2.17.1 > > >
