This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mtd: gpmi: fix kernel BUG due to racing DMA operations
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mtd-gpmi-fix-kernel-bug-due-to-racing-dma-operations.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7b3d2fb92067bcb29f0f085a9fa9fa64920a6646 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Huang Shijie <b32955@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:13:45 +0800
Subject: mtd: gpmi: fix kernel BUG due to racing DMA operations
From: Huang Shijie <b32955@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 7b3d2fb92067bcb29f0f085a9fa9fa64920a6646 upstream.
[1] The gpmi uses the nand_command_lp to issue the commands to NAND chips.
The gpmi issues a DMA operation with gpmi_cmd_ctrl when it handles
a NAND_CMD_NONE control command. So when we read a page(NAND_CMD_READ0)
from the NAND, we may send two DMA operations back-to-back.
If we do not serialize the two DMA operations, we will meet a bug when
1.1) we enable CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG, CONFIG_DMADEVICES_DEBUG,
and CONFIG_DEBUG_SG.
1.2) Use the following commands in an UART console and a SSH console:
cmd 1: while true;do dd if=/dev/mtd0 of=/dev/null;done
cmd 1: while true;do dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/dev/null;done
The kernel log shows below:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
kernel BUG at lib/scatterlist.c:28!
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
.........................
[<80044a0c>] (__bug+0x18/0x24) from [<80249b74>] (sg_next+0x48/0x4c)
[<80249b74>] (sg_next+0x48/0x4c) from [<80255398>] (debug_dma_unmap_sg+0x170/0x1a4)
[<80255398>] (debug_dma_unmap_sg+0x170/0x1a4) from [<8004af58>] (dma_unmap_sg+0x14/0x6c)
[<8004af58>] (dma_unmap_sg+0x14/0x6c) from [<8027e594>] (mxs_dma_tasklet+0x18/0x1c)
[<8027e594>] (mxs_dma_tasklet+0x18/0x1c) from [<8007d444>] (tasklet_action+0x114/0x164)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
1.3) Assume the two DMA operations is X (first) and Y (second).
The root cause of the bug:
Assume process P issues DMA X, and sleep on the completion
@this->dma_done. X's tasklet callback is dma_irq_callback. It firstly
wake up the process sleeping on the completion @this->dma_done,
and then trid to unmap the scatterlist S. The waked process P will
issue Y in another ARM core. Y initializes S->sg_magic to zero
with sg_init_one(), while dma_irq_callback is unmapping S at the same
time.
See the diagram:
ARM core 0 | ARM core 1
-------------------------------------------------------------
(P issues DMA X, then sleep) --> |
|
(X's tasklet wakes P) --> |
|
| <-- (P begin to issue DMA Y)
|
(X's tasklet unmap the |
scatterlist S with dma_unmap_sg) --> | <-- (Y calls sg_init_one() to init
| scatterlist S)
|
[2] This patch serialize both the X and Y in the following way:
Unmap the DMA scatterlist S firstly, and wake up the process at the end
of the DMA callback, in such a way, Y will be executed after X.
After this patch:
ARM core 0 | ARM core 1
-------------------------------------------------------------
(P issues DMA X, then sleep) --> |
|
(X's tasklet unmap the |
scatterlist S with dma_unmap_sg) --> |
|
(X's tasklet wakes P) --> |
|
| <-- (P begin to issue DMA Y)
|
| <-- (Y calls sg_init_one() to init
| scatterlist S)
|
Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <b32955@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
@@ -227,8 +227,6 @@ static void dma_irq_callback(void *param
struct gpmi_nand_data *this = param;
struct completion *dma_c = &this->dma_done;
- complete(dma_c);
-
switch (this->dma_type) {
case DMA_FOR_COMMAND:
dma_unmap_sg(this->dev, &this->cmd_sgl, 1, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
@@ -253,6 +251,8 @@ static void dma_irq_callback(void *param
default:
pr_err("in wrong DMA operation.\n");
}
+
+ complete(dma_c);
}
int start_dma_without_bch_irq(struct gpmi_nand_data *this,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from b32955@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/mtd-gpmi-fix-kernel-bug-due-to-racing-dma-operations.patch
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