[IA64-SGI] Silent data corruption caused by XPC V2.

Jack Steiner identified a problem where XPC can cause a silent
data corruption.  On module load, the placement may cause the
xpc_remote_copy_buffer to span two physical pages.  DMA transfers are
done to the start virtual address translated to physical.

This patch changes the buffer from a statically allocated buffer to a
kmalloc'd buffer.  Dean Nelson reviewed this before posting.  I have
tested it in the configuration that was showing the memory corruption
and verified it works.  I also added a BUG_ON statement to help catch
this if a similar situation is encountered.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c
index 5e8e59efb347..4d026f9dd98b 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c
@@ -1052,6 +1052,8 @@ xpc_do_exit(enum xpc_retval reason)
 	if (xpc_sysctl) {
 		unregister_sysctl_table(xpc_sysctl);
 	}
+
+	kfree(xpc_remote_copy_buffer_base);
 }
 
 
@@ -1212,24 +1214,20 @@ xpc_init(void)
 	partid_t partid;
 	struct xpc_partition *part;
 	pid_t pid;
+	size_t buf_size;
 
 
 	if (!ia64_platform_is("sn2")) {
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * xpc_remote_copy_buffer is used as a temporary buffer for bte_copy'ng
-	 * various portions of a partition's reserved page. Its size is based
-	 * on the size of the reserved page header and part_nasids mask. So we
-	 * need to ensure that the other items will fit as well.
-	 */
-	if (XPC_RP_VARS_SIZE > XPC_RP_HEADER_SIZE + XP_NASID_MASK_BYTES) {
-		dev_err(xpc_part, "xpc_remote_copy_buffer is not big enough\n");
-		return -EPERM;
-	}
-	DBUG_ON((u64) xpc_remote_copy_buffer !=
-				L1_CACHE_ALIGN((u64) xpc_remote_copy_buffer));
+
+	buf_size = max(XPC_RP_VARS_SIZE,
+				XPC_RP_HEADER_SIZE + XP_NASID_MASK_BYTES);
+	xpc_remote_copy_buffer = xpc_kmalloc_cacheline_aligned(buf_size,
+				     GFP_KERNEL, &xpc_remote_copy_buffer_base);
+	if (xpc_remote_copy_buffer == NULL)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	snprintf(xpc_part->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "part");
 	snprintf(xpc_chan->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "chan");
@@ -1293,6 +1291,8 @@ xpc_init(void)
 		if (xpc_sysctl) {
 			unregister_sysctl_table(xpc_sysctl);
 		}
+
+		kfree(xpc_remote_copy_buffer_base);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
 
@@ -1311,6 +1311,8 @@ xpc_init(void)
 		if (xpc_sysctl) {
 			unregister_sysctl_table(xpc_sysctl);
 		}
+
+		kfree(xpc_remote_copy_buffer_base);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
 
@@ -1362,6 +1364,8 @@ xpc_init(void)
 		if (xpc_sysctl) {
 			unregister_sysctl_table(xpc_sysctl);
 		}
+
+		kfree(xpc_remote_copy_buffer_base);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}