Re: [PATCH] iommu/vt-d: Do not BUG_ON in intel_unmap if no domain

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Aug 04 2014 - 07:42:13 EST


On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 01:23:06PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
>
> This BUG_ON is easy to trigger with device-hotplug (e.g.
> SR-IOV). The device_notifier function in the Intel IOMMU
> driver listens to the BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE event and frees
> the domain for the device if it is reveived.
>
> But this event is triggered before the device driver is
> unbound from the device. When the driver core actually
> removes the device the driver may release pending DMA
> resources, which ends up in intel_unmap and triggers the
> BUG_ON.
>
> Not listening to BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE would cause resource
> leakage with devices that have never been assigned to any
> driver, so fix this issue by just making unmap a nop when
> the domain is already released.
>
> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
> index d1f5caa..7d689d7 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
> @@ -3196,7 +3196,8 @@ static void intel_unmap(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dev_addr)
> return;
>
> domain = find_domain(dev);
> - BUG_ON(!domain);
> + if (!domain)
> + return;

It is always questionable when people remove BUG_ONs because relaxing
assertions sound like a temporary fix more often than not. Sounds to me
that the original commit which deals with BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE needs to
try again with the fix. :-)

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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