From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031555Ab2I1Tm6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:42:58 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:47421 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965163Ab2I1S7h (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:59:37 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg KH , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Santiago Leon , "David S. Miller" Subject: [ 117/262] ibmveth: Fix alignment of rx queue bug Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:50:46 -0700 Message-Id: <20120928183011.945374516@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.1.362.g242cab3 In-Reply-To: <20120928182957.993484211@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20120928182957.993484211@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-2.1.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg KH 3.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Santiago Leon commit d90c92fee89ccd75ef2646f3bde0b4c0450666c3 upstream. This patch fixes a bug found by Nish Aravamudan (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/15/220) where the driver is not following the spec (it is not aligning the rx buffer on a 16-byte boundary) and the hypervisor aborts the registration, making the device unusable. The fix follows BenH's recommendation (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/20/461) to replace the kmalloc+map for a single call to dma_alloc_coherent() because that function always aligns to a 16-byte boundary. The stable trees will run into this bug whenever the rx buffer kmalloc call returns something not aligned on a 16-byte boundary. Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 26 +++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c @@ -472,14 +472,9 @@ static void ibmveth_cleanup(struct ibmve } if (adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr != NULL) { - if (!dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma)) { - dma_unmap_single(dev, - adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma, - adapter->rx_queue.queue_len, - DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL); - adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma = DMA_ERROR_CODE; - } - kfree(adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr); + dma_free_coherent(dev, adapter->rx_queue.queue_len, + adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr, + adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma); adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr = NULL; } @@ -556,10 +551,13 @@ static int ibmveth_open(struct net_devic goto err_out; } + dev = &adapter->vdev->dev; + adapter->rx_queue.queue_len = sizeof(struct ibmveth_rx_q_entry) * rxq_entries; - adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr = kmalloc(adapter->rx_queue.queue_len, - GFP_KERNEL); + adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr = + dma_alloc_coherent(dev, adapter->rx_queue.queue_len, + &adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma, GFP_KERNEL); if (!adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr) { netdev_err(netdev, "unable to allocate rx queue pages\n"); @@ -567,19 +565,13 @@ static int ibmveth_open(struct net_devic goto err_out; } - dev = &adapter->vdev->dev; - adapter->buffer_list_dma = dma_map_single(dev, adapter->buffer_list_addr, 4096, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL); adapter->filter_list_dma = dma_map_single(dev, adapter->filter_list_addr, 4096, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL); - adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma = dma_map_single(dev, - adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr, - adapter->rx_queue.queue_len, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL); if ((dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->buffer_list_dma)) || - (dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->filter_list_dma)) || - (dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma))) { + (dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->filter_list_dma))) { netdev_err(netdev, "unable to map filter or buffer list " "pages\n"); rc = -ENOMEM;