[EXTERNAL] [RFC PATCH] powernv/eeh: Fix oops when probing cxl devices

Frederic Barrat fbarrat at linux.ibm.com
Wed Oct 16 06:41:44 AEDT 2019



Le 15/10/2019 à 07:42, Sam Bobroff a écrit :
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 02:45:10PM +0200, Frederic Barrat wrote:
>> Recent cleanup in the way EEH support is added to a device causes a
>> kernel oops when the cxl driver probes a device and creates virtual
>> devices discovered on the FPGA:
>>
>>      BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x000000a0
>>      Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000048070
>>      Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 7 [#1]
>>      ...
>>      NIP [c000000000048070] eeh_add_device_late.part.9+0x50/0x1e0
>>      LR [c00000000004805c] eeh_add_device_late.part.9+0x3c/0x1e0
>>      Call Trace:
>>      [c000200e43983900] [c00000000079e250] _dev_info+0x5c/0x6c (unreliable)
>>      [c000200e43983980] [c0000000000d1ad0] pnv_pcibios_bus_add_device+0x60/0xb0
>>      [c000200e439839f0] [c0000000000606d0] pcibios_bus_add_device+0x40/0x60
>>      [c000200e43983a10] [c0000000006aa3a0] pci_bus_add_device+0x30/0x100
>>      [c000200e43983a80] [c0000000006aa4d4] pci_bus_add_devices+0x64/0xd0
>>      [c000200e43983ac0] [c00800001c429118] cxl_pci_vphb_add+0xe0/0x130 [cxl]
>>      [c000200e43983b00] [c00800001c4242ac] cxl_probe+0x504/0x5b0 [cxl]
>>      [c000200e43983bb0] [c0000000006bba1c] local_pci_probe+0x6c/0x110
>>      [c000200e43983c30] [c000000000159278] work_for_cpu_fn+0x38/0x60
>>
>> The root cause is that those cxl virtual devices don't have a
>> representation in the device tree and therefore no associated pci_dn
>> structure. In eeh_add_device_late(), pdn is NULL, so edev is NULL and
>> we oops.
>>
>> We never had explicit support for EEH for those virtual
>> devices. Instead, EEH events are reported to the (real) pci device and
>> handled by the cxl driver. Which can then forward to the virtual
>> devices and handle dependencies. The fact that we try adding EEH
>> support for the virtual devices is new and a side-effect of the recent
>> cleanup.
>>
>> This patch fixes it by skipping adding EEH support on powernv for
>> devices which don't have a pci_dn structure.
>>
>> Fixes: b905f8cdca77 ("powerpc/eeh: EEH for pSeries hot plug")
>> Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat at linux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Sending as an RFC, as I'm afraid of hiding potential issues and would
>> be interested in comments. The powernv eeh code expects a struct
>> pci_dn, so the fix seems safe. I'm wondering if there could be cases
>> (other than capi virtual devices) where we'd want to blow up and fix
>> instead of going undetected with this patch.
> 
> Looks good to me.
> 
> I do think it would be good to detect a missing pci_dn (WARN_ONCE()
> might be appropriate).  However to implement it,
> pnv_pcibios_bus_add_device() would need a way to detect that a struct
> pci_dev is a cxl virtual device. I don't see an easy way to do that; do
> you know if it's possible?


I think I found a solution. There's a cxl_pci_is_vphb_device() which is 
fairly cheap and would do the job. Sorry, I didn't think about it at first.


> One last thing: pseries_pcibios_bus_add_device() also requires a pci_dn.
> Do you know if it's possible to trigger a similar issue there, or is it
> not possible for some reason?


I don't think anybody is using capi in a lpar, but it should theorically 
be possible to hit it. I'll dig some more tomorrow and adjust the patch 
when resubmitting.

Thanks!

   Fred


> 
> Cheers,
> Sam.
> 
>>   arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-powernv.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-powernv.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-powernv.c
>> index 6bc24a47e9ef..6f300ab7f0e9 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-powernv.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-powernv.c
>> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ void pnv_pcibios_bus_add_device(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>>   {
>>   	struct pci_dn *pdn = pci_get_pdn(pdev);
>>   
>> -	if (eeh_has_flag(EEH_FORCE_DISABLED))
>> +	if (!pdn || eeh_has_flag(EEH_FORCE_DISABLED))
>>   		return;
>>   
>>   	dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "EEH: Setting up device\n");
>> -- 
>> 2.21.0
>>



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