[PATCH] asm/sections: fix the determination of the end of the memory region

From: quanyang . wang
Date: Thu Aug 11 2022 - 02:31:53 EST


From: Quanyang Wang <quanyang.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

If using "vend >= begin" to judge if two memory regions intersects, vend
should be the end of the memory region, so it should be "virt + size -1"
instead of "virt + size".
The wrong determination of the end triggers the misreporting as below when
the dma debug function "check_for_illegal_area" calls memory_intersects to
check if the dma region intersects with stext region.

Calltrace (stext is at 0x80100000):
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 77 at kernel/dma/debug.c:1073 check_for_illegal_area+0x130/0x168
DMA-API: chipidea-usb2 e0002000.usb: device driver maps memory from kernel text or rodata [addr=800f0000] [len=65536]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 77 Comm: usb-storage Not tainted 5.19.0-yocto-standard #5
Hardware name: Xilinx Zynq Platform
unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x18/0x1c
show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x58/0x70
dump_stack_lvl from __warn+0xb0/0x198
__warn from warn_slowpath_fmt+0x80/0xb4
warn_slowpath_fmt from check_for_illegal_area+0x130/0x168
check_for_illegal_area from debug_dma_map_sg+0x94/0x368
debug_dma_map_sg from __dma_map_sg_attrs+0x114/0x128
__dma_map_sg_attrs from dma_map_sg_attrs+0x18/0x24
dma_map_sg_attrs from usb_hcd_map_urb_for_dma+0x250/0x3b4
usb_hcd_map_urb_for_dma from usb_hcd_submit_urb+0x194/0x214
usb_hcd_submit_urb from usb_sg_wait+0xa4/0x118
usb_sg_wait from usb_stor_bulk_transfer_sglist+0xa0/0xec
usb_stor_bulk_transfer_sglist from usb_stor_bulk_srb+0x38/0x70
usb_stor_bulk_srb from usb_stor_Bulk_transport+0x150/0x360
usb_stor_Bulk_transport from usb_stor_invoke_transport+0x38/0x440
usb_stor_invoke_transport from usb_stor_control_thread+0x1e0/0x238
usb_stor_control_thread from kthread+0xf8/0x104
kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c

Fixes: 979559362516 ("asm/sections: add helpers to check for section data")
Signed-off-by: Quanyang Wang <quanyang.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/asm-generic/sections.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/sections.h b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
index d0f7bdd2fdf2..f7171b4f5bfd 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/sections.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static inline bool memory_contains(void *begin, void *end, void *virt,
static inline bool memory_intersects(void *begin, void *end, void *virt,
size_t size)
{
- void *vend = virt + size;
+ void *vend = virt + size - 1;

return (virt >= begin && virt < end) || (vend >= begin && vend < end);
}
--
2.36.1