[PATCH 5.9 234/255] swiotlb: fix "x86: Dont panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-11-17T13:41:46Z

From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com>

commit e9696d259d0fb5d239e8c28ca41089838ea76d13 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ int __init swiotlb_init_with_tbl(char *t
io_tlb_orig_addr[i] = INVALID_PHYS_ADDR;
}
io_tlb_index = 0;
+ no_iotlb_memory = false;

if (verbose)
swiotlb_print_info();
@@ -262,9 +263,11 @@ 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;
}
@@ -362,6 +365,7 @@ swiotlb_late_init_with_tbl(char *tlb, un
io_tlb_orig_addr[i] = INVALID_PHYS_ADDR;
}
io_tlb_index = 0;
+ no_iotlb_memory = false;

swiotlb_print_info();