[PATCH] ocxl: Fix endiannes bug in ocxl_link_update_pe()

Greg Kurz groug at kaod.org
Mon Dec 17 08:28:50 AEDT 2018


All fields in the PE are big-endian. Use cpu_to_be32() like everywhere
else something is written to the PE. Otherwise a wrong TID will be used
by the NPU. If this TID happens to point to an existing thread sharing
the same mm, it could be woken up by error. This is highly improbable
though. The likely outcome of this is the NPU not finding the target
thread and forcing the AFU into sending an interrupt, which userspace
is supposed to handle anyway.

Fixes: e948e06fc63a ("ocxl: Expose the thread_id needed for wait on POWER9")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org      # v4.18
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug at kaod.org>
---

This bug remained unnoticed so far because the current OCXL test suite
happens to call OCXL_IOCTL_ENABLE_P9_WAIT before attaching a context.
This causes ocxl_link_update_pe() to be called before ocxl_link_add_pe()
which re-writes the TID in the PE with the appropriate endianness.

I have some patches that change the behavior of the OCXL test suite so that
it can catch the issue:

https://github.com/gkurz/libocxl/commits/wake-host-thread-rework
---
 drivers/misc/ocxl/link.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/ocxl/link.c b/drivers/misc/ocxl/link.c
index 31695a078485..646d16450066 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/link.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/link.c
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ int ocxl_link_update_pe(void *link_handle, int pasid, __u16 tid)
 
 	mutex_lock(&spa->spa_lock);
 
-	pe->tid = tid;
+	pe->tid = cpu_to_be32(tid);
 
 	/*
 	 * The barrier makes sure the PE is updated



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