Re: [PATCH] virtio_vring: Fix maximum DMA mapping size computation

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On 2021-12-03 12:16, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> The virtio vring is a bit messy about the DMA allocations. We
> use the parent device for any DMA alloc/free. However, we use the
> child device for calculating the maximum size mapped by the DMA API
> for the device. This leads to issues where the max size is set to
> SIZE_MAX, and if the virtio device (e.g, virtio-blk) is bound to
> swiotlb (e.g., via restricted-dma pool), we end up trying to allocate
> larger chunks of memory, which are never satisfied by the swiotlb and
> eventually fails.
> 
> Fix this by using the parent device (just like all the other
> DMA API calls) for the max mapping size.
> 
> Fixes: e6d6dd6c875e ("virtio: Introduce virtio_max_dma_size()")
> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
> Co-developed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c 
> b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> index 6d2614e34470..028b05d44546 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ size_t virtio_max_dma_size(struct virtio_device 
> *vdev)
>  	size_t max_segment_size = SIZE_MAX;
> 
>  	if (vring_use_dma_api(vdev))
> -		max_segment_size = dma_max_mapping_size(&vdev->dev);
> +		max_segment_size = dma_max_mapping_size(vdev->dev.parent);
> 
>  	return max_segment_size;
>  }

Ah, it looks like we all hit the same thing[1] at the same time!

         M.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201112018.25276-1-will@kernel.org
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