[PATCH v5 22/23] PCI/sysfs: Convert legacy I/O and memory attributes to static definitions

Krzysztof Wilczyński kwilczynski at kernel.org
Wed Apr 22 06:06:09 AEST 2026


Hello,

> Currently, legacy_io and legacy_mem are dynamically allocated and
> created by pci_create_legacy_files(), with pci_adjust_legacy_attr()
> updating the attributes at runtime on Alpha to rename them and shift
> the size for sparse addressing.
> 
> Convert to four static const attributes (legacy_io, legacy_io_sparse,
> legacy_mem, legacy_mem_sparse) with is_bin_visible() callbacks that
> use pci_legacy_has_sparse() to select the appropriate variant per bus.
> The sizes are compile-time constants and .size is set directly on
> each attribute.
> 
> Register the groups in pcibus_groups[] under a HAVE_PCI_LEGACY guard
> so the driver model handles creation and removal automatically.
> 
> Stub out pci_create_legacy_files() and pci_remove_legacy_files() as
> the dynamic creation is no longer needed.  Remove the __weak
> pci_adjust_legacy_attr(), Alpha's override, and its declaration from
> both Alpha and PowerPC asm/pci.h headers.

There is feedback from Sashiko about this:

  https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260416180107.777065-1-kwilczynski%40kernel.org?part=22

This is a pre-existing issue that is does trip KASAN:

  - Read successful; larger buffer.

    root at kvm:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/sys/class/pci_bus/0000:00/legacy_io bs=4 count=1 seek=32
    1+0 records in
    1+0 records out
    4 bytes (4B) copied, 0.004042 seconds, 989B/s

  - Splat; smaller buffer.

    root at kvm:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/sys/class/pci_bus/0000:00/legacy_io bs=1 count=1 seek=128
    [  138.516163] ==================================================================
    [  138.516843] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in pci_write_legacy_io+0x90/0xc8
    [  138.517311] Read of size 4 at addr c29697b0 by task dd/37
    [  138.517685] 
    [  138.518188] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 37 Comm: dd Not tainted 7.0.0-rc1-g973e040579d6 #1 PREEMPTLAZY 
    [  138.518578] Hardware name: PowerMac3,1 7400 0xc0209 PowerMac
    [  138.519019] Call Trace:
    [  138.519165] [c2b8bbd0] [c12deee4] dump_stack_lvl+0x50/0x78 (unreliable)
    [  138.519632] [c2b8bbf0] [c03f67e4] print_report+0x14c/0x514
    [  138.519968] [c2b8bc50] [c03f646c] kasan_report+0x104/0x1d0
    [  138.520288] [c2b8bcd0] [c0925e94] pci_write_legacy_io+0x90/0xc8
    [  138.520624] [c2b8bcf0] [c0626cb4] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x484/0x6cc
    [  138.521003] [c2b8bd30] [c0419d1c] vfs_write+0x5fc/0x12f4
    [  138.521299] [c2b8be60] [c041aeac] ksys_write+0x120/0x244
    [  138.521605] [c2b8bf00] [c001d218] system_call_exception+0x14c/0x304
    [  138.521976] [c2b8bf30] [c002b1bc] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x2c
    [  138.522317] ---- interrupt: c00 at 0x100a59f4
    [  138.522695] NIP:  100a59f4 LR: 101005e4 CTR: b7bf44a0
    [  138.523013] REGS: c2b8bf40 TRAP: 0c00   Not tainted  (7.0.0-rc1-g973e040579d6)
    [  138.523413] MSR:  0000d932 <EE,PR,ME,IR,DR,RI>  CR: 28004462  XER: 00000000
    [  138.524028] 
    [  138.524028] GPR00: 00000004 bfbff210 1027d520 00000001 102795a0 00000001 10277237 100a4ac4 
    [  138.524028] GPR08: 0000d932 00000002 00000000 bfbff2c0 b7bf0000 102790b2 10230000 10226faa 
    [  138.524028] GPR16: 10237d81 00000000 00000000 102795a0 102795a0 00000000 1027721f 00000001 
    [  138.524028] GPR24: 00000001 00000000 10271500 10270000 00000000 00000001 102795a0 00000001 
    [  138.526014] NIP [100a59f4] 0x100a59f4
    [  138.526264] LR [101005e4] 0x101005e4
    [  138.526500] ---- interrupt: c00
    [  138.526740] 
    [  138.526913] Allocated by task 37 on cpu 0 at 138.516066s:
    [  138.527334]  kasan_save_track+0x3c/0x90
    [  138.527572]  __kasan_kmalloc+0xb8/0xec
    [  138.527816]  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x55c/0x6cc
    [  138.528076]  vfs_write+0x5fc/0x12f4
    [  138.528269]  ksys_write+0x120/0x244
    [  138.528472]  system_call_exception+0x14c/0x304
    [  138.528688]  ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x2c
    [  138.528950] 
    [  138.529108] The buggy address belongs to the object at c29697b0
    [  138.529108]  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8
    [  138.529673] The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
    [  138.529673]  allocated 2-byte region [c29697b0, c29697b2)
    [  138.530173] 
    [  138.530318] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
    [  138.531001] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2969
    [  138.531454] flags: 0x0(zone=0)
    [  138.532076] page_type: f5(slab)
    [  138.532520] raw: 00000000 c1c01300 00000122 00000000 00000000 005500aa f5000000 00000000
    [  138.533046] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
    [  138.533372] 
    [  138.533496] Memory state around the buggy address:
    [  138.533955]  c2969680: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
    [  138.534328]  c2969700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
    [  138.534693] >c2969780: fc fc fc fc fc fc 02 fc fc fc fc fc fa fc fc fc
    [  138.535066]                              ^
    [  138.535358]  c2969800: fc fc fa fc fc fc fc fc fa fc fc fc fc fc 04 fc
    [  138.535661]  c2969880: fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc fc fa fc fc fc fc fc
    [  138.536058] ==================================================================
    [  138.537335] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
    1+0 records in
    1+0 records out
    1 bytes (1B) copied, 0.023071 seconds, 43B/s

Something to fix as a follow-up.

Thank you!

	Krzysztof


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