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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Sina Hassani <sina@openai.com>
Cc: kevin.tian@intel.com, joro@8bytes.org, will@kernel.org,
	robin.murphy@arm.com, iommu@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Aaron Wisner <awiz@openai.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Fixes a race in iopt_unmap_iova_range
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 22:12:10 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260407011210.GM2551565@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAJpGJTztK=BTvr6s_e4epJffKchmXmqba82wxE_SOXUN6FWYg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 06, 2026 at 04:07:01PM -0700, Sina Hassani wrote:

> io_pagetable *iopt, unsigned long start,
>                 unmapped_bytes += area_last - area_first + 1;
> 
>                 down_write(&iopt->iova_rwsem);
> +
> +               /* Do not reconsider things already unmapped in case of
> +                * concurrent allocation */
> +               start = area_last + 1;

area_last can be ULONG_MAX so this literally overflows to 0. It is why
I formed the suggestion I gave as I did

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-07  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-06 23:07 [PATCH v2] Fixes a race in iopt_unmap_iova_range Sina Hassani
2026-04-07  1:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2026-04-07  1:17   ` Sina Hassani
2026-04-07  1:27     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-07  1:40       ` Sina Hassani
2026-04-07 22:03         ` Sina Hassani
2026-04-09 15:15         ` Jason Gunthorpe

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