Re: [PATCH] iommu/iova: wait 'fq_timer' handler to finish before destroying 'fq'

[Xiongfeng Wang via iommu <iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>]

On 2021/12/10 1:48, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2021-12-09 13:17, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> Sorry I missed this before...
>>
>> On 2019-07-27 10:21, Xiongfeng Wang wrote:
>>> Fix following crash that occurs when 'fq_flush_timeout()' access
>>> 'fq->lock' while 'iovad->fq' has been cleared. This happens when the
>>> 'fq_timer' handler is being executed and we call
>>> 'free_iova_flush_queue()'. When the timer handler is being executed,
>>> its pending state is cleared and it is detached. This patch use
>>> 'del_timer_sync()' to wait for the timer handler 'fq_flush_timeout()' to
>>> finish before destroying the flush queue.
>>
>> So if I understand correctly, you shut down the device - which naturally frees
>> some DMA mappings into the FQ - then hotplug it out, such that tearing down
>> its group and default domain can end up racing with the timeout firing on a
>> different CPU? It would help if the commit message actually explained that -
>> I've just reverse-engineered it from the given symptom - rather than focusing
>> on details that aren't really important. fq->lock is hardly significant, since
>> *any* access to the FQ while it's being destroyed is fundamentally unsound. I
>> also spent way too long trying to understand the significance of the full
>> stack trace below before realising that it is in fact just irrelevant -
>> there's only one way fq_flush_timeout() ever gets called, and it's the obvious
>> one.
>>
>> The fix itself seems reasonable - the kerneldoc for del_timer_sync() is
>> slightly scary, but since free_iova_flush_queue() doesn't touch any of the
>> locks and definitely shouldn't run in IRQ context I believe we're OK.

Our internal version has merged this modification for about two years and didn't
cause any problems. So I think we're OK.

>>
>> This will affect my IOVA refactoring series a little, so I'm happy to help
>> improve the writeup if you like - provided that my understanding is actually
>> correct - and include it in a v2 of that.
> 
> FWIW, this is what I came up with:
> 
> https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-rm/-/commit/ecea6835baca75b945bd8ecfaa636ff01dabcc1d
> 
> 
> Let me know what you think.

Thanks for the writeup. It is exactly the situation I came across.

Thanks,
Xiongfeng

> 
> Thanks,
> Robin.
> .
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