From: Marc Orr <marcorr@google.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: kbusch@kernel.org, axboe@fb.com, sagi@grimberg.me,
Jianxiong Gao <jxgao@google.com>,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: fix handling mapping failure
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:12:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA03e5GeGRLcLzp8d6pOC7UnQq9mZYzgW9rQgV3XHMb5gfsLWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210119180024.GA28024@lst.de>
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:00 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 09:53:36AM -0800, Marc Orr wrote:
> > This patch ensures that when `nvme_map_data()` fails to map the
> > addresses in a scatter/gather list:
> >
> > * The addresses are not incorrectly unmapped. The underlying
> > scatter/gather code unmaps the addresses after detecting a failure.
> > Thus, unmapping them again in the driver is a bug.
> > * The DMA pool allocations are not deallocated when they were never
> > allocated.
> >
> > The bug that motivated this patch was the following sequence, which
> > occurred within the NVMe driver, with the kernel flag `swiotlb=force`.
> >
> > * NVMe driver calls dma_direct_map_sg()
> > * dma_direct_map_sg() fails part way through the scatter gather/list
> > * dma_direct_map_sg() calls dma_direct_unmap_sg() to unmap any entries
> > succeeded.
> > * NVMe driver calls dma_direct_unmap_sg(), redundantly, leading to a
> > double unmap, which is a bug.
> >
> > Before this patch, I observed intermittent application- and VM-level
> > failures when running a benchmark, fio, in an AMD SEV guest. This patch
> > resolves the failures.
>
> I think the right way to fix this is to just do a proper unwind insted
> of calling a catchall function. Can you try this patch?
Done. It works great, thanks! Shall I send out a v2 with what you've proposed?
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> index 25456d02eddb8c..47d7075053b6b2 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> @@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ static blk_status_t nvme_map_data(struct nvme_dev *dev, struct request *req,
> sg_init_table(iod->sg, blk_rq_nr_phys_segments(req));
> iod->nents = blk_rq_map_sg(req->q, req, iod->sg);
> if (!iod->nents)
> - goto out;
> + goto out_free_sg;
>
> if (is_pci_p2pdma_page(sg_page(iod->sg)))
> nr_mapped = pci_p2pdma_map_sg_attrs(dev->dev, iod->sg,
> @@ -851,16 +851,25 @@ static blk_status_t nvme_map_data(struct nvme_dev *dev, struct request *req,
> nr_mapped = dma_map_sg_attrs(dev->dev, iod->sg, iod->nents,
> rq_dma_dir(req), DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN);
> if (!nr_mapped)
> - goto out;
> + goto out_free_sg;
>
> iod->use_sgl = nvme_pci_use_sgls(dev, req);
> if (iod->use_sgl)
> ret = nvme_pci_setup_sgls(dev, req, &cmnd->rw, nr_mapped);
> else
> ret = nvme_pci_setup_prps(dev, req, &cmnd->rw);
> -out:
> if (ret != BLK_STS_OK)
> - nvme_unmap_data(dev, req);
> + goto out_dma_unmap;
> + return BLK_STS_OK;
> +
> +out_dma_unmap:
> + if (is_pci_p2pdma_page(sg_page(iod->sg)))
> + pci_p2pdma_unmap_sg(dev->dev, iod->sg, iod->nents,
> + rq_dma_dir(req));
> + else
> + dma_unmap_sg(dev->dev, iod->sg, iod->nents, rq_dma_dir(req));
Do you think it's worth hoisting this sg unmap snippet into a helper
that can be called from both here, as well as nvme_unmap_data()?
> +out_free_sg:
> + mempool_free(iod->sg, dev->iod_mempool);
> return ret;
> }
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-19 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-19 17:53 [PATCH] nvme: fix handling mapping failure Marc Orr
2021-01-19 18:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-19 23:12 ` Marc Orr [this message]
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