Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] PCI/sysfs: Prohibit unaligned access to I/O port on non-x86

[duziming <duziming2@huawei.com>]

在 2026/1/9 15:21, Ilpo Järvinen 写道:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2026, duziming wrote:
>
>> 在 2026/1/8 16:56, David Laight 写道:
>>> On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 09:59:44 +0800
>>> Ziming Du <duziming2@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Yongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@huawei.com>
>>>>
>>>> Unaligned access is harmful for non-x86 archs such as arm64. When we
>>>> use pwrite or pread to access the I/O port resources with unaligned
>>>> offset, system will crash as follows:
>>>>
>>>> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffbfffe8010c1
>>>> Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000061 [#1] SMP
>>>> Call trace:
>>>>    _outw include/asm-generic/io.h:594 [inline]
>>>>    logic_outw+0x54/0x218 lib/logic_pio.c:305
>>>>    pci_resource_io drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:1157 [inline]
>>>>    pci_write_resource_io drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:1191 [inline]
>>>>    pci_write_resource_io+0x208/0x260 drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:1181
>>>>    sysfs_kf_bin_write+0x188/0x210 fs/sysfs/file.c:158
>>>>    kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x2e8/0x4b0 fs/kernfs/file.c:338
>>>>    vfs_write+0x7bc/0xac8 fs/read_write.c:586
>>>>    ksys_write+0x12c/0x270 fs/read_write.c:639
>>>>    __arm64_sys_write+0x78/0xb8 fs/read_write.c:648
>>>>
>>>> Powerpc seems affected as well, so prohibit the unaligned access
>>>> on non-x86 archs.
>>> I'm not sure it makes any real sense for x86 either.
>>> IIRC io space is just like memory space, so a 16bit io access looks the
>>> same as two 8bit accesses to an 8bit device (some put the 'data fifo' on
>>> addresses 0 and 1 so the code could use 16bit io accesses to speed things
>>> up).
>>> The same will have applied to misaligned accesses.
>>> But, in reality, all device registers are aligned.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure EFAULT is the best error code though, EINVAL might be better.
>>> (EINVAL is returned for other address/size errors.)
>>> EFAULT is usually returned for errors accessing the user buffer, a least
>>> one unix system raises SIGSEGV whenever EFAULT is returned.
>>>
>> Just to confirm: should all architectures prohibit unaligned access to device
>> registers?
> In my opinion, yes, also x86 should prohibit it (like I already
> expressed but you ignored that comment until now).
Oops,  I didn’t quite understand your opinion earlier :(
>