Re: [PATCH -next] RDMA/hns: Fix return in hns_roce_rereg_user_mr()

[YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>]

On 2021/8/5 11:40, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 10:36:03AM +0800, YueHaibing wrote:
>> On 2021/8/4 21:53, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 08:59:39PM +0800, YueHaibing wrote:
>>>> If re-registering an MR in hns_roce_rereg_user_mr(), we should
>>>> return NULL instead of pass 0 to ERR_PTR.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 4e9fc1dae2a9 ("RDMA/hns: Optimize the MR registration process")
>>>> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c | 4 +++-
>>>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c
>>>> index 006c84bb3f9f..7089ac780291 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c
>>>> @@ -352,7 +352,9 @@ struct ib_mr *hns_roce_rereg_user_mr(struct ib_mr *ibmr, int flags, u64 start,
>>>>  free_cmd_mbox:
>>>>  	hns_roce_free_cmd_mailbox(hr_dev, mailbox);
>>>>  
>>>> -	return ERR_PTR(ret);
>>>> +	if (ret)
>>>> +		return ERR_PTR(ret);
>>>> +	return NULL;
>>>>  }
>>>
>>> I don't understand this function, it returns or ERR_PTR() or NULL, but
>>> should return &mr->ibmr in success path. How does it work?
>>
>> Did you means hns_roce_reg_user_mr()?
>>
>> hns_roce_rereg_user_mr() returns ERR_PTR() on failure, and return NULL on success,
>>
>> In ib_uverbs_rereg_mr(), old mr will be used if rereg_user_mr() return NULL, see:
>>
>>  829         new_mr = ib_dev->ops.rereg_user_mr(mr, cmd.flags, cmd.start, cmd.length,
>>  830                                            cmd.hca_va, cmd.access_flags, new_pd,
>>  831                                            &attrs->driver_udata);
>>  832         if (IS_ERR(new_mr)) {
>>  833                 ret = PTR_ERR(new_mr);
>>  834                 goto put_new_uobj;
>>  835         }
>>  836         if (new_mr) {
>> .....
>>  860                 mr = new_mr;
>>  861         } else {
>>  862                 if (cmd.flags & IB_MR_REREG_PD) {
>>  863                         atomic_dec(&orig_pd->usecnt);
>>  864                         mr->pd = new_pd;
>>  865                         atomic_inc(&new_pd->usecnt);
>>  866                 }
>>  867                 if (cmd.flags & IB_MR_REREG_TRANS)
>>  868                         mr->iova = cmd.hca_va;
>>  869         }
> 
> You overwrite various fields in old_mr when executing hns_roce_rereg_user_mr().
> For example mr->access flags, which is not returned to the original
> state after all failures.

IMO, if ibv_rereg_mr failed, the mr is in undefined state, user needs to call
ibv_dereg_mr in order to release it, so there no need to recover the original state.

Also， mlx4_ib_rereg_user_mr seems to do the same thing.

> 
> Also I'm not so sure about if it is valid to return NULL in all flows.
> 
> Thanks
> 
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>>  
>>>>  int hns_roce_dereg_mr(struct ib_mr *ibmr, struct ib_udata *udata)
>>>> -- 
>>>> 2.17.1
>>>>
>>> .
>>>
> .
>