Re: [PATCH] firewire: fw-ohci: plug dma memory leak in AR handler

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Wed Mar 26 2008 - 19:50:41 EST


I wrote:
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> @@ -605,7 +606,7 @@ static void ar_context_tasklet(unsigned long data)
>> buffer = handle_ar_packet(ctx, buffer);
>>
>> dma_free_coherent(ohci->card.device, PAGE_SIZE,
>> - buffer, buffer_bus);
>> + start, start_bus);
>> ar_context_add_page(ctx);
>
> On the other hand, why do we free a page + allocate a page?
> Why don't we re-initialize and re-add the old page?


Meanwhile I tried a simple modification to ar_context_add_page and its
callers which results in _add_page simply re-adding the old page. I must
do something fundamentally wrong though.

After plugging in a FW disk and starting hdparm -tT, I get the modified
_add_page called for the ar_request_ctx, then for the ar_response_ctx,
then for the ar_request_ctx again, then everything stalls in one of
these modes:
- No status write request reception is logged anymore, or
- status write request reception with evt_no_status is logged.
The number of _add_page calls for ar_request_ctx until failure
corresponds to the number of pages added in ar_context_init.
(Normally two, I also tried three and four.)

Just FYI, here is basically what I tested, with a debug printk in it.
---
drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c | 34 +++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Index: linux/drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c
+++ linux/drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c
@@ -451,14 +451,19 @@ ohci_update_phy_reg(struct fw_card *card
return 0;
}

-static int ar_context_add_page(struct ar_context *ctx)
+static int ar_context_add_page(struct ar_context *ctx, struct ar_buffer *ab)
{
struct device *dev = ctx->ohci->card.device;
- struct ar_buffer *ab;
dma_addr_t uninitialized_var(ab_bus);
- size_t offset;
+ size_t offset = offsetof(struct ar_buffer, data);

- ab = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, PAGE_SIZE, &ab_bus, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (ab == NULL)
+ ab = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, PAGE_SIZE, &ab_bus, GFP_KERNEL);
+ else {
+ ab_bus = le32_to_cpu(ab->descriptor.data_address) - offset;
+ fw_notify("=== %s ===\n",
+ ctx == &ctx->ohci->ar_request_ctx ? "Req " : "Resp");
+ }
if (ab == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -466,7 +471,6 @@ static int ar_context_add_page(struct ar
ab->descriptor.control = cpu_to_le16(DESCRIPTOR_INPUT_MORE |
DESCRIPTOR_STATUS |
DESCRIPTOR_BRANCH_ALWAYS);
- offset = offsetof(struct ar_buffer, data);
ab->descriptor.req_count = cpu_to_le16(PAGE_SIZE - offset);
ab->descriptor.data_address = cpu_to_le32(ab_bus + offset);
ab->descriptor.res_count = cpu_to_le16(PAGE_SIZE - offset);
@@ -569,8 +573,7 @@ static __le32 *handle_ar_packet(struct a
static void ar_context_tasklet(unsigned long data)
{
struct ar_context *ctx = (struct ar_context *)data;
- struct fw_ohci *ohci = ctx->ohci;
- struct ar_buffer *ab;
+ struct ar_buffer *ab, *old_ab;
struct descriptor *d;
void *buffer, *end;

@@ -578,9 +581,7 @@ static void ar_context_tasklet(unsigned
d = &ab->descriptor;

if (d->res_count == 0) {
- size_t size, rest, offset;
- dma_addr_t start_bus;
- void *start;
+ size_t size, rest;

/*
* This descriptor is finished and we may have a
@@ -588,10 +589,7 @@ static void ar_context_tasklet(unsigned
* reuse the page for reassembling the split packet.
*/

- offset = offsetof(struct ar_buffer, data);
- start = buffer = ab;
- start_bus = le32_to_cpu(ab->descriptor.data_address) - offset;
-
+ buffer = old_ab = ab;
ab = ab->next;
d = &ab->descriptor;
size = buffer + PAGE_SIZE - ctx->pointer;
@@ -605,9 +603,7 @@ static void ar_context_tasklet(unsigned
while (buffer < end)
buffer = handle_ar_packet(ctx, buffer);

- dma_free_coherent(ohci->card.device, PAGE_SIZE,
- start, start_bus);
- ar_context_add_page(ctx);
+ ar_context_add_page(ctx, old_ab);
} else {
buffer = ctx->pointer;
ctx->pointer = end =
@@ -628,8 +624,8 @@ ar_context_init(struct ar_context *ctx,
ctx->last_buffer = &ab;
tasklet_init(&ctx->tasklet, ar_context_tasklet, (unsigned long)ctx);

- ar_context_add_page(ctx);
- ar_context_add_page(ctx);
+ ar_context_add_page(ctx, NULL);
+ ar_context_add_page(ctx, NULL);
ctx->current_buffer = ab.next;
ctx->pointer = ctx->current_buffer->data;


--
Stefan Richter
-=====-==--- --== ==-==
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

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