Re: [PATCH 07/10] crypto: Use ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN instead of ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Sat Oct 01 2022 - 18:34:53 EST


On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 12:35:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 11:33 AM Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I started refreshing the series but I got stuck on having to do bouncing
> > for small buffers even if when they go through the iommu (and I don't
> > have the set up to test it yet).
>
> May I suggest doing that "force bouncing" and "change kmalloc to have
> a 8-byte minalign" to be the two first commits?
>
> IOW, if we force bouncing for unaligned DMA, then that *should* mean
> that allocation alignment is no longer a correctness issue, it's
> purely a performance one due to the bouncing.

I've been thinking about this and even ended up with a CBMC model
(included below; it found a bug in dma_kmalloc_needs_bounce()).

The "force bouncing" in my series currently only checks for small
(potentially kmalloc'ed) sizes under the assumption that intra-object
DMA buffers were properly aligned to 128. So for something like below:

struct devres {
struct devres_node node;
u8 __aligned(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN) data[];
};

we'd need ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN of 128 even if ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is 8.
Original the code has __aligned(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN), so lowering the
latter to 8 without any changes would be problematic (the sizeof(devres)
may be sufficiently large to look cacheline-aligned).

If data[] contains a single DMA buffer, dma_kmalloc_needs_bounce() can
get the start of the buffer as another parameter and check that it's a
multiple of cache_line_size().

However, things get more complicated if data[] is used for several
sub-allocations of multiples of ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. Not much to do
with kmalloc() caches at this point. I haven't got my head around the
crypto code but it looked to me like it needs ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN in some
places if we are to lower ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. We could attempt to
force bouncing in dma_kmalloc_needs_bounce() by:

if (ptr % dma_align != || size % dma_align != 0)
return true;

but that's orthogonal to the kmalloc caches. I tried this some years ago
and IIRC many buffers get bounced even with ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN of 128
because drivers don't necessarily have cacheline-aligned sized
structures shared with devices (but they are allocated from a
cacheline-aligned slab). So this check results in unnecessary bouncing.

So my series attempts to (1) fix the (static) alignment for intra-object
buffers by changing a few ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN uses to
ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN and (2) address the kmalloc() DMA safety by bouncing
non-cacheline-aligned sizes. I don't think we can do (2) first as the
logic for handling (1) in the absence of a large ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN is
different.

And that's the CMBC model:

------------------------------------8<----------------------------
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
* Check with:
* cbmc --trace dma-bounce.c
*/

#define PAGE_SIZE 4096

#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN 8
#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN 128

#define KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW 3
#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH 25
#define KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE (1UL << KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH)

#define INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(__size, __short_size) \
{ \
.size = __size, \
}

static unsigned int nondet_uint(void);

struct kmalloc_info_struct {
unsigned int size;
};

struct kmalloc_slab {
unsigned int ptr;
unsigned int size;
};

static const struct kmalloc_info_struct kmalloc_info[] = {
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(0, 0),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(96, 96),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(192, 192),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(8, 8),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(16, 16),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(32, 32),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(64, 64),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(128, 128),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(256, 256),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(512, 512),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(1024, 1k),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(2048, 2k),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(4096, 4k),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(8192, 8k),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(16384, 16k),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(32768, 32k),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(65536, 64k),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(131072, 128k),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(262144, 256k),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(524288, 512k),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(1048576, 1M),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(2097152, 2M),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(4194304, 4M),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(8388608, 8M),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(16777216, 16M),
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO(33554432, 32M)
};

static unsigned int cache_line_size(void)
{
static const unsigned int cls = nondet_uint();

__CPROVER_assume(cls == 32 || cls == 64 || cls == 128);

return cls;
}

static unsigned int kmalloc_index(unsigned int size)
{
if (!size)
return 0;

if (size <= KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE)
return KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW;

if (KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE <= 32 && size > 64 && size <= 96)
return 1;
if (KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE <= 64 && size > 128 && size <= 192)
return 2;
if (size <= 8) return 3;
if (size <= 16) return 4;
if (size <= 32) return 5;
if (size <= 64) return 6;
if (size <= 128) return 7;
if (size <= 256) return 8;
if (size <= 512) return 9;
if (size <= 1024) return 10;
if (size <= 2 * 1024) return 11;
if (size <= 4 * 1024) return 12;
if (size <= 8 * 1024) return 13;
if (size <= 16 * 1024) return 14;
if (size <= 32 * 1024) return 15;
if (size <= 64 * 1024) return 16;
if (size <= 128 * 1024) return 17;
if (size <= 256 * 1024) return 18;
if (size <= 512 * 1024) return 19;
if (size <= 1024 * 1024) return 20;
if (size <= 2 * 1024 * 1024) return 21;
if (size <= 4 * 1024 * 1024) return 22;
if (size <= 8 * 1024 * 1024) return 23;
if (size <= 16 * 1024 * 1024) return 24;
if (size <= 32 * 1024 * 1024) return 25;

__CPROVER_assert(0, "Invalid kmalloc() size");

return -1;
}

unsigned int kmalloc(unsigned int size, struct kmalloc_slab *slab)
{
unsigned int nr = nondet_uint();

slab->size = kmalloc_info[kmalloc_index(size)].size;
slab->ptr = nr * slab->size;

__CPROVER_assume(slab->ptr < PAGE_SIZE);
__CPROVER_assume(slab->ptr % slab->size == 0);

return slab->ptr;
}

/*
* Implemented only for 32, 64 and 128 cache line sizes.
*/
int dma_kmalloc_needs_bounce(unsigned int size)
{
unsigned int dma_align = cache_line_size();

/*
* Less than half dma_align, there's definitely a smaller kmalloc()
* cache.
*/
if (size <= dma_align / 2)
return 1;

/*
* From this point, any kmalloc cache size is 32-byte aligned.
*/
if (dma_align == 32)
return 0;

/*
* dma_align == 64 => 96 needs bouncing.
* dma_align == 128 => 96 and 192 need bouncing.
*/
if (size > 64 && size <= 96)
return 1;
if (dma_align == 128 && size > 128 && size <= 192)
return 1;

return 0;
}

/*
* Simulate DMA cache maintenance. The 'slab' object is only used for
* verification.
*/
void dma_map_single(unsigned int ptr, unsigned int size,
struct kmalloc_slab *slab)
{
unsigned int mask = cache_line_size() - 1;

if (dma_kmalloc_needs_bounce(size)) {
/* was the bounce really necessary? */
__CPROVER_assert((ptr & mask) != 0 || (size & mask) != 0,
"Bouncing aligned DMA buffer");
return;
}

/*
* Check for cache maintenance outside the kmalloc'ed object. We don't
* care about intra-object overlap, it's the caller's responsibility
* to ensure alignment.
*/
__CPROVER_assert((ptr & ~mask) >= slab->ptr, "DMA cache maintenance underflow");
__CPROVER_assert(((ptr + size + mask) & ~mask) <= slab->ptr + slab->size,
"DMA cache maintenance overflow");
}

int main(void)
{
struct kmalloc_slab slab;
unsigned int size = nondet_uint();
unsigned int offset = nondet_uint();
unsigned int ptr;

__CPROVER_assume(size <= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE);
__CPROVER_assume(offset < size);
__CPROVER_assume(offset % ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN == 0);

ptr = kmalloc(size, &slab);
dma_map_single(ptr + offset, size - offset, &slab);

return 0;
}

--
Catalin