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[PATCH] Revert "ALSA: memalloc: Workaround for Xen PV"



This patch attempted to work around a DMA issue involving Xen, but
causes subtle kernel memory corruption.

When I brought up this patch in the XenDevel matrix channel, I was
told that it had been requested by the Qubes OS developers because
they were trying to fix an issue where the sound stack would fail
after a few hours of uptime.  They wound up disabling SG buffering
entirely instead as a workaround.

Accordingly, I propose that we should revert this workaround patch,
since it causes kernel memory corruption and that the ALSA and Xen
communities should collaborate on fixing the underlying problem in
such a way that SG buffering works correctly under Xen.

This reverts commit 53466ebdec614f915c691809b0861acecb941e30.

Signed-off-by: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@ariadne.space>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
---
 sound/core/memalloc.c | 87 +++++++++----------------------------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/memalloc.c b/sound/core/memalloc.c
index f901504b5afc..81025f50a542 100644
--- a/sound/core/memalloc.c
+++ b/sound/core/memalloc.c
@@ -541,15 +541,16 @@ static void *snd_dma_noncontig_alloc(struct 
snd_dma_buffer *dmab, size_t size)
        struct sg_table *sgt;
        void *p;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SND_DMA_SGBUF
-       if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_XENPV))
-               return snd_dma_sg_fallback_alloc(dmab, size);
-#endif
        sgt = dma_alloc_noncontiguous(dmab->dev.dev, size, dmab->dev.dir,
                                      DEFAULT_GFP, 0);
 #ifdef CONFIG_SND_DMA_SGBUF
-       if (!sgt && !get_dma_ops(dmab->dev.dev))
+       if (!sgt && !get_dma_ops(dmab->dev.dev)) {
+               if (dmab->dev.type == SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_WC_SG)
+                       dmab->dev.type = SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_WC_SG_FALLBACK;
+               else
+                       dmab->dev.type = SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG_FALLBACK;
                return snd_dma_sg_fallback_alloc(dmab, size);
+       }
 #endif
        if (!sgt)
                return NULL;
@@ -716,38 +717,19 @@ static const struct snd_malloc_ops snd_dma_sg_wc_ops = {
 
 /* Fallback SG-buffer allocations for x86 */
 struct snd_dma_sg_fallback {
-       bool use_dma_alloc_coherent;
        size_t count;
        struct page **pages;
-       /* DMA address array; the first page contains #pages in ~PAGE_MASK */
-       dma_addr_t *addrs;
 };
 
 static void __snd_dma_sg_fallback_free(struct snd_dma_buffer *dmab,
                                       struct snd_dma_sg_fallback *sgbuf)
 {
-       size_t i, size;
-
-       if (sgbuf->pages && sgbuf->addrs) {
-               i = 0;
-               while (i < sgbuf->count) {
-                       if (!sgbuf->pages[i] || !sgbuf->addrs[i])
-                               break;
-                       size = sgbuf->addrs[i] & ~PAGE_MASK;
-                       if (WARN_ON(!size))
-                               break;
-                       if (sgbuf->use_dma_alloc_coherent)
-                               dma_free_coherent(dmab->dev.dev, size << 
PAGE_SHIFT,
-                                                 page_address(sgbuf->pages[i]),
-                                                 sgbuf->addrs[i] & PAGE_MASK);
-                       else
-                               do_free_pages(page_address(sgbuf->pages[i]),
-                                             size << PAGE_SHIFT, false);
-                       i += size;
-               }
-       }
+       bool wc = dmab->dev.type == SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_WC_SG_FALLBACK;
+       size_t i;
+
+       for (i = 0; i < sgbuf->count && sgbuf->pages[i]; i++)
+               do_free_pages(page_address(sgbuf->pages[i]), PAGE_SIZE, wc);
        kvfree(sgbuf->pages);
-       kvfree(sgbuf->addrs);
        kfree(sgbuf);
 }
 
@@ -756,36 +738,24 @@ static void *snd_dma_sg_fallback_alloc(struct 
snd_dma_buffer *dmab, size_t size)
        struct snd_dma_sg_fallback *sgbuf;
        struct page **pagep, *curp;
        size_t chunk, npages;
-       dma_addr_t *addrp;
        dma_addr_t addr;
        void *p;
-
-       /* correct the type */
-       if (dmab->dev.type == SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG)
-               dmab->dev.type = SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG_FALLBACK;
-       else if (dmab->dev.type == SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_WC_SG)
-               dmab->dev.type = SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_WC_SG_FALLBACK;
+       bool wc = dmab->dev.type == SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_WC_SG_FALLBACK;
 
        sgbuf = kzalloc(sizeof(*sgbuf), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!sgbuf)
                return NULL;
-       sgbuf->use_dma_alloc_coherent = cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_XENPV);
        size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
        sgbuf->count = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
        sgbuf->pages = kvcalloc(sgbuf->count, sizeof(*sgbuf->pages), 
GFP_KERNEL);
-       sgbuf->addrs = kvcalloc(sgbuf->count, sizeof(*sgbuf->addrs), 
GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!sgbuf->pages || !sgbuf->addrs)
+       if (!sgbuf->pages)
                goto error;
 
        pagep = sgbuf->pages;
-       addrp = sgbuf->addrs;
-       chunk = (PAGE_SIZE - 1) << PAGE_SHIFT; /* to fit in low bits in addrs */
+       chunk = size;
        while (size > 0) {
                chunk = min(size, chunk);
-               if (sgbuf->use_dma_alloc_coherent)
-                       p = dma_alloc_coherent(dmab->dev.dev, chunk, &addr, 
DEFAULT_GFP);
-               else
-                       p = do_alloc_pages(dmab->dev.dev, chunk, &addr, false);
+               p = do_alloc_pages(dmab->dev.dev, chunk, &addr, wc);
                if (!p) {
                        if (chunk <= PAGE_SIZE)
                                goto error;
@@ -797,25 +767,17 @@ static void *snd_dma_sg_fallback_alloc(struct 
snd_dma_buffer *dmab, size_t size)
                size -= chunk;
                /* fill pages */
                npages = chunk >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-               *addrp = npages; /* store in lower bits */
                curp = virt_to_page(p);
-               while (npages--) {
+               while (npages--)
                        *pagep++ = curp++;
-                       *addrp++ |= addr;
-                       addr += PAGE_SIZE;
-               }
        }
 
        p = vmap(sgbuf->pages, sgbuf->count, VM_MAP, PAGE_KERNEL);
        if (!p)
                goto error;
-
-       if (dmab->dev.type == SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_WC_SG_FALLBACK)
-               set_pages_array_wc(sgbuf->pages, sgbuf->count);
-
        dmab->private_data = sgbuf;
        /* store the first page address for convenience */
-       dmab->addr = sgbuf->addrs[0] & PAGE_MASK;
+       dmab->addr = snd_sgbuf_get_addr(dmab, 0);
        return p;
 
  error:
@@ -825,23 +787,10 @@ static void *snd_dma_sg_fallback_alloc(struct 
snd_dma_buffer *dmab, size_t size)
 
 static void snd_dma_sg_fallback_free(struct snd_dma_buffer *dmab)
 {
-       struct snd_dma_sg_fallback *sgbuf = dmab->private_data;
-
-       if (dmab->dev.type == SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_WC_SG_FALLBACK)
-               set_pages_array_wb(sgbuf->pages, sgbuf->count);
        vunmap(dmab->area);
        __snd_dma_sg_fallback_free(dmab, dmab->private_data);
 }
 
-static dma_addr_t snd_dma_sg_fallback_get_addr(struct snd_dma_buffer *dmab,
-                                              size_t offset)
-{
-       struct snd_dma_sg_fallback *sgbuf = dmab->private_data;
-       size_t index = offset >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-
-       return (sgbuf->addrs[index] & PAGE_MASK) | (offset & ~PAGE_MASK);
-}
-
 static int snd_dma_sg_fallback_mmap(struct snd_dma_buffer *dmab,
                                    struct vm_area_struct *area)
 {
@@ -856,8 +805,8 @@ static const struct snd_malloc_ops snd_dma_sg_fallback_ops 
= {
        .alloc = snd_dma_sg_fallback_alloc,
        .free = snd_dma_sg_fallback_free,
        .mmap = snd_dma_sg_fallback_mmap,
-       .get_addr = snd_dma_sg_fallback_get_addr,
        /* reuse vmalloc helpers */
+       .get_addr = snd_dma_vmalloc_get_addr,
        .get_page = snd_dma_vmalloc_get_page,
        .get_chunk_size = snd_dma_vmalloc_get_chunk_size,
 };
-- 
2.39.2




 


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