Re: [PATCH v2] swiotlb-xen: provide the "max_mapping_size" method

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2023, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> From: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There's a bug that when using the XEN hypervisor with bios with large
> multi-page bio vectors on NVMe, the kernel deadlocks [1].
> 
> The deadlocks are caused by inability to map a large bio vector -
> dma_map_sgtable always returns an error, this gets propagated to the block
> layer as BLK_STS_RESOURCE and the block layer retries the request
> indefinitely.
> 
> XEN uses the swiotlb framework to map discontiguous pages into contiguous
> runs that are submitted to the PCIe device. The swiotlb framework has a
> limitation on the length of a mapping - this needs to be announced with
> the max_mapping_size method to make sure that the hardware drivers do not
> create larger mappings.
> 
> Without max_mapping_size, the NVMe block driver would create large
> mappings that overrun the maximum mapping size.
> 
> Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/ZTNH0qtmint%2FzLJZ@mail-itl/ [1]
> Tested-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>


> ---
>  drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> Index: linux-stable/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-stable.orig/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c       2023-11-03 
> 17:57:18.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-stable/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c    2023-11-06 15:30:59.000000000 
> +0100
> @@ -405,4 +405,5 @@ const struct dma_map_ops xen_swiotlb_dma
>       .get_sgtable = dma_common_get_sgtable,
>       .alloc_pages = dma_common_alloc_pages,
>       .free_pages = dma_common_free_pages,
> +     .max_mapping_size = swiotlb_max_mapping_size,
>  };