Re: [PATCH] PCI: fix sriov enabling with virtual bus

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Nov 05 2014 - 16:23:46 EST


On Wednesday, November 05, 2014 01:22:52 PM Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> [+cc Chao, Joerg]
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:09:13AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > [+cc Rafael, linux-acpi]
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 03:26:10PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > > While enabling sriov for intel igb device got:
> > >
> > > sca05-0a81fda5:~ # echo 7 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:09\:00.0/sriov_numvfs
> > > [ 729.612191] pci 0000:0a:10.0: [8086:1520] type 00 class 0x020000
> > > [ 729.619002] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000e8
> > > [ 729.627767] IP: [<ffffffff815901cb>] pci_get_hp_params+0x5b/0x640
> > > [ 729.634593] PGD 0
> > > [ 729.636844] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> > > [ 729.640466] Modules linked in:
> > > ...
> > > [ 729.795268] Call Trace:
> > > [ 729.798007] [<ffffffff81ea0843>] ? pci_mmcfg_read+0x123/0x140
> > > [ 729.804519] [<ffffffff81ea0770>] ? pci_mmcfg_read+0x50/0x140
> > > [ 729.810942] [<ffffffff815692a3>] pci_configure_device+0x33/0x350
> > > [ 729.817744] [<ffffffff8156aba4>] pci_device_add+0x24/0x160
> > > [ 729.823965] [<ffffffff8158f3bb>] pci_enable_sriov+0x4db/0x7d0
> > > [ 729.830486] [<ffffffff81b63f54>] ? igb_pci_enable_sriov+0xe4/0x200
> > > [ 729.837481] [<ffffffff81b63f7f>] igb_pci_enable_sriov+0x10f/0x200
> > > [ 729.844386] [<ffffffff8155129c>] ? _kstrtoull+0x2c/0x80
> > > [ 729.850315] [<ffffffff81b640a5>] igb_pci_sriov_configure+0x35/0x40
> > > [ 729.857318] [<ffffffff815752b5>] sriov_numvfs_store+0xe5/0x140
> > > [ 729.863934] [<ffffffff817e1f88>] dev_attr_store+0x18/0x30
> > > [ 729.870063] [<ffffffff812624d8>] sysfs_kf_write+0x48/0x60
> > > [ 729.876186] [<ffffffff812617ef>] ? kernfs_fop_write+0xaf/0x170
> > > [ 729.882797] [<ffffffff81261827>] kernfs_fop_write+0xe7/0x170
> > > [ 729.889222] [<ffffffff811ef66b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x1c0
> > > [ 729.894958] [<ffffffff811f0019>] SyS_write+0x49/0xb0
> > > ...
> > > [ 729.943531] ---[ end trace 7cf0cdb66637665a ]---
> > >
> > > and pci_get_hp_params+0x5b point to
> > > 0xffffffff815901cb is in pci_get_hp_params (include/linux/device.h:815).
> > > 810 #include <linux/pm_wakeup.h>
> > > 811
> > > 812 static inline const char *dev_name(const struct device *dev)
> > > 813 {
> > > 814 /* Use the init name until the kobject becomes available */
> > > 815 if (dev->init_name)
> > > 816 return dev->init_name;
> > > 817
> > > 818 return kobject_name(&dev->kobj);
> > >
> > > The root cause:
> > > Now pci_configure_device/pci_get_hp_params will be called for every pci_dev,
> > > including VF that is under virtual bus. But virtual bus does not have bridge
> > > set. So we can not refer pbus->self->dev directly.
> >
> > This raises the question of what the correct behavior should be. Your
> > patch certainly avoids the NULL pointer dereference. It does so by making
> > acpi_pci_get_bridge_handle() fail gracefully, which means we will not look
> > for _HPP/_HPX for VF devices.
>
> I think I was mistaken about this. A VF device might be on a virtual bus.
> And a virtual bus never has a bridge leading to it, i.e., its bus->self
> pointer is NULL. But I think a virtual bus always has a *parent* bus,
> i.e., for a VF, dev->bus->parent is always valid. This is because when
> virtfn_add_bus() creates the virtual bus with "pci_add_new_bus(bus, NULL,
> busnr)", the "bus" parameter (which becomes the parent bus of the virtual
> bus) is a valid bus.
>
> So with your patch, I think we *will* actually look for _HPP and _HPX for
> VF devices, because we'll look for the handle of the bridge leading to the
> virtual bus (which will return NULL), then for the handle of the bridge
> leading to the virtual bus' parent bus, etc.
>
> If you agree, Yinghai, I'll apply the patch below (same as what you posted,
> with different changelog and a comment in the code).
>
> The acpi_pci_get_bridge_handle(struct pci_bus *) interface niggles at me a
> little because I don't think there's any concept of an ACPI device for a
> PCI *bus*, so it doesn't seem like a very good fit to say "find the handle
> for this bus". But that's for later.

To me it does what it says: Get me the handle of the bridge leading to this bus.

> commit 32f638fc11db0526c706454d9ab4339d55ac89f3
> Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Oct 30 10:17:25 2014 -0600
>
> PCI: Don't oops on virtual buses in acpi_pci_get_bridge_handle()
>
> acpi_pci_get_bridge_handle() returns the ACPI handle for the bridge device
> (either a host bridge or a PCI-to-PCI bridge) leading to a PCI bus. But
> SR-IOV virtual functions can be on a virtual bus with no bridge leading to
> it. Return a NULL acpi_handle in this case instead of trying to
> dereference the NULL pointer to the bridge.
>
> This fixes a NULL pointer dereference oops in pci_get_hp_params() when
> adding SR-IOV VF devices on virtual buses.
>
> [bhelgaas: changelog, add comment in code]
> Fixes: 6cd33649fa83 ("PCI: Add pci_configure_device() during enumeration")
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87591
> Reported-by: Chao Zhou <chao.zhou@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/pci-acpi.h b/include/linux/pci-acpi.h
> index 64dacb7288a6..24c7728ca681 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pci-acpi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pci-acpi.h
> @@ -41,8 +41,13 @@ static inline acpi_handle acpi_pci_get_bridge_handle(struct pci_bus *pbus)
>
> if (pci_is_root_bus(pbus))
> dev = pbus->bridge;
> - else
> + else {
> + /* If pbus is a virtual bus, there is no bridge to it */
> + if (!pbus->self)
> + return NULL;
> +
> dev = &pbus->self->dev;
> + }
>
> return ACPI_HANDLE(dev);
> }
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