Re: [PATCH] iommu/dma: limit iova free size to unmmaped iova

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On 2020-05-22 07:25, guptap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 2020-05-22 01:46, Robin Murphy wrote:
On 2020-05-21 12:30, Prakash Gupta wrote:
Limit the iova size while freeing based on unmapped size. In absence of
this even with unmap failure, invalid iova is pushed to iova rcache and
subsequently can cause panic while rcache magazine is freed.

Can you elaborate on that panic?

We have seen couple of stability issues around this.
Below is one such example:

kernel BUG at kernel/msm-4.19/drivers/iommu/iova.c:904!
iova_magazine_free_pfns
iova_rcache_insert
free_iova_fast
__iommu_unmap_page
iommu_dma_unmap_page

OK, so it's not some NULL dereference or anything completely unexpected, that's good.

It turned out an iova pfn 0 got into iova_rcache. One possibility I see is
where client unmap with invalid dma_addr. The unmap call will fail and warn on
and still try to free iova. This will cause invalid pfn to be inserted into
rcache. As and when the magazine with invalid pfn will be freed
private_find_iova() will return NULL for invalid iova and meet bug condition.

That would indeed be a bug in whatever driver made the offending dma_unmap call.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Gupta <guptap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

:100644 100644 4959f5df21bd 098f7d377e04 M    drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
index 4959f5df21bd..098f7d377e04 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
@@ -472,7 +472,8 @@ static void __iommu_dma_unmap(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
        if (!cookie->fq_domain)
          iommu_tlb_sync(domain, &iotlb_gather);
-    iommu_dma_free_iova(cookie, dma_addr, size);
+    if (unmapped)
+        iommu_dma_free_iova(cookie, dma_addr, unmapped);

Frankly, if any part of the unmap fails then things have gone
catastrophically wrong already, but either way this isn't right. The
IOVA API doesn't support partial freeing - an IOVA *must* be freed
with its original size, or not freed at all, otherwise it will corrupt
the state of the rcaches and risk a cascade of further misbehaviour
for future callers.

I agree, we shouldn't be freeing the partial iova. Instead just making
sure if unmap was successful should be sufficient before freeing iova. So change
can instead be something like this:

-    iommu_dma_free_iova(cookie, dma_addr, size);
+    if (unmapped)
+        iommu_dma_free_iova(cookie, dma_addr, size);

TBH my gut feeling here is that you're really just trying to treat a
symptom of another bug elsewhere, namely some driver calling
dma_unmap_* or dma_free_* with the wrong address or size in the first
place.

This condition would arise only if driver calling dma_unmap/free_* with 0
iova_pfn. This will be flagged with a warning during unmap but will trigger
panic later on while doing unrelated dma_map/unmap_*. If unmapped has already failed for invalid iova, there is no reason we should consider this as valid
iova and free. This part should be fixed.

I disagree. In general, if drivers call the DMA API incorrectly it is liable to lead to data loss, memory corruption, and various other unpleasant misbehaviour - it is not the DMA layer's job to attempt to paper over driver bugs.

There *is* an argument for downgrading the BUG_ON() in iova_magazine_free_pfns() to a WARN_ON(), since frankly it isn't a sufficiently serious condition to justify killing the whole machine immediately, but NAK to bodging the iommu-dma mid-layer to "fix" that. A serious bug already happened elsewhere, so trying to hide the fallout really doesn't help anyone.

Robin.

On 2020-05-22 00:19, Andrew Morton wrote:
I think we need a cc:stable here?

Added now.

Thanks,
Prakash



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