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From: Lynn Liu <liulynn@google.com>
To: joro@8bytes.org, will@kernel.org, robin.murphy@arm.com
Cc: iommu@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 Lynn Liu <liulynn@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] iommu/iova: Add NULL check in iova_magazine_free()
Date: Mon,  9 Mar 2026 18:41:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260309184104.2321071-1-liulynn@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <116b79a2-fadb-4796-8cb7-9c2dfde54999@arm.com>

In iova_domain_init_rcaches(), when an iova_magazine allocation fails,
the code jumps to the error path and calls free_iova_rcaches().

In free_iova_rcaches(), the code iterates through all possible CPUs to
free both cpu_rcache->loaded and cpu_rcache->prev. However, if the
original allocation failed mid-way through the CPU loop, the pointers
for the remaining CPUs remain NULL. free_iova_rcaches() then blindly
attempts to free these NULL pointers, which causes a kernel paging
request fault in kmem_cache_free().

The crash can be observed when fault injection triggers a failure in
iova_magazine_alloc():

pc : _compound_head include/linux/page-flags.h:251 [inline]
pc : virt_to_folio include/linux/mm.h:1395 [inline]
pc : virt_to_slab mm/slab.h:215 [inline]
pc : kmem_cache_free+0x90/0x5c4 mm/slub.c:4769
...
Call trace:
 trace_kmem_cache_free include/trace/events/kmem.h:114 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x90/0x5c4 mm/slub.c:4768
 iova_magazine_free drivers/iommu/iova.c:623 [inline]
 free_iova_rcaches+0x114/0x344 drivers/iommu/iova.c:894
 iova_domain_init_rcaches drivers/iommu/iova.c:762 [inline]
 iova_domain_init_rcaches+0x3d0/0x528 drivers/iommu/iova.c:717

These changes update iova_domain_init_rcaches() to check for allocation
failure immediately after each individual magazine allocation.
Correspondingly, update free_iova_rcaches() to break the cleanup loop
when it encounters a NULL pointer, ensuring only successfully allocated
resources are processed.

Fixes: 84e6f56be9c6 ("iommu/iova: use named kmem_cache for iova magazines")
Signed-off-by: Lynn Liu <liulynn@google.com>
---
v3:
 - Split magazine allocation checks in iova_domain_init_rcaches().
 - Add early breaks in free_iova_rcaches() to safely handle partial allocations as suggested.
 Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/116b79a2-fadb-4796-8cb7-9c2dfde54999@arm.com/T/#t

v2:
 - Update author name to full name.
 - Add Fixes tag.
 - Include the Call trace from the kernel crash.
 Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20260214080919.390846-1-liulynn@google.com/T/#u

 drivers/iommu/iova.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iova.c b/drivers/iommu/iova.c
index 18f839721813..cf6cd9f23b97 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iova.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iova.c
@@ -740,8 +740,12 @@ int iova_domain_init_rcaches(struct iova_domain *iovad)
 
 			spin_lock_init(&cpu_rcache->lock);
 			cpu_rcache->loaded = iova_magazine_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (!cpu_rcache->loaded) {
+				ret = -ENOMEM;
+				goto out_err;
+			}
 			cpu_rcache->prev = iova_magazine_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
-			if (!cpu_rcache->loaded || !cpu_rcache->prev) {
+			if (!cpu_rcache->prev) {
 				ret = -ENOMEM;
 				goto out_err;
 			}
@@ -886,7 +890,11 @@ static void free_iova_rcaches(struct iova_domain *iovad)
 			break;
 		for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
 			cpu_rcache = per_cpu_ptr(rcache->cpu_rcaches, cpu);
+			if (!cpu_rcache->loaded)
+				break;
 			iova_magazine_free(cpu_rcache->loaded);
+			if (!cpu_rcache->prev)
+				break;
 			iova_magazine_free(cpu_rcache->prev);
 		}
 		free_percpu(rcache->cpu_rcaches);
-- 
2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog


      reply	other threads:[~2026-03-09 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-04  8:06 [PATCH v2] iommu/iova: Add NULL check in iova_magazine_free() Lynn Liu
2026-03-04 18:41 ` Robin Murphy
2026-03-09 18:41   ` Lynn Liu [this message]

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