swiotlb: fix "x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb"
authorStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com>
Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:02:14 +0000 (17:02 -0700)
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Mon, 2 Nov 2020 15:10:37 +0000 (10:10 -0500)
kernel/dma/swiotlb.c:swiotlb_init gets called first and tries to
allocate a buffer for the swiotlb. It does so by calling

  memblock_alloc_low(PAGE_ALIGN(bytes), PAGE_SIZE);

If the allocation must fail, no_iotlb_memory is set.

Later during initialization swiotlb-xen comes in
(drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c:xen_swiotlb_init) and given that io_tlb_start
is != 0, it thinks the memory is ready to use when actually it is not.

When the swiotlb is actually needed, swiotlb_tbl_map_single gets called
and since no_iotlb_memory is set the kernel panics.

Instead, if swiotlb-xen.c:xen_swiotlb_init knew the swiotlb hadn't been
initialized, it would do the initialization itself, which might still
succeed.

Fix the panic by setting io_tlb_start to 0 on swiotlb initialization
failure, and also by setting no_iotlb_memory to false on swiotlb
initialization success.

Fixes: ac2cbab21f31 ("x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb")
Reported-by: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+xen@m5p.com>
Tested-by: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+xen@m5p.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
kernel/dma/swiotlb.c

index b4eea0abc3f00208600fe80d6f293922a56b6ffe..54078f0d4c873c460100e51ed1c2fee1f3ec8fd2 100644 (file)
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ int __init swiotlb_init_with_tbl(char *tlb, unsigned long nslabs, int verbose)
                io_tlb_orig_addr[i] = INVALID_PHYS_ADDR;
        }
        io_tlb_index = 0;
+       no_iotlb_memory = false;
 
        if (verbose)
                swiotlb_print_info();
@@ -260,9 +261,11 @@ swiotlb_init(int verbose)
        if (vstart && !swiotlb_init_with_tbl(vstart, io_tlb_nslabs, verbose))
                return;
 
-       if (io_tlb_start)
+       if (io_tlb_start) {
                memblock_free_early(io_tlb_start,
                                    PAGE_ALIGN(io_tlb_nslabs << IO_TLB_SHIFT));
+               io_tlb_start = 0;
+       }
        pr_warn("Cannot allocate buffer");
        no_iotlb_memory = true;
 }
@@ -360,6 +363,7 @@ swiotlb_late_init_with_tbl(char *tlb, unsigned long nslabs)
                io_tlb_orig_addr[i] = INVALID_PHYS_ADDR;
        }
        io_tlb_index = 0;
+       no_iotlb_memory = false;
 
        swiotlb_print_info();