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authorYann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>2014-05-05 19:33:21 +0200
committerRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>2014-05-27 11:53:13 -0700
commita8237b32a3faab155a5dc8f886452147ce73da3e (patch)
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parentIB/mlx5: Refactor UMR to have its own context struct (diff)
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IB/mlx5: add missing padding at end of struct mlx5_ib_create_cq
The i386 ABI disagrees with most other ABIs regarding alignment of data type larger than 4 bytes: on most ABIs a padding must be added at end of the structures, while it is not required on i386. So for most ABI struct mlx5_ib_create_cq get padded to be aligned on a 8 bytes multiple, while for i386, such padding is not added. The tool pahole can be used to find such implicit padding: $ pahole --anon_include \ --nested_anon_include \ --recursive \ --class_name mlx5_ib_create_cq \ drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.o Then, structure layout can be compared between i386 and x86_64: +++ obj-i386/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.o.pahole.txt 2014-03-28 11:43:07.386413682 +0100 --- obj-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.o.pahole.txt 2014-03-27 13:06:17.788472721 +0100 @@ -34,9 +34,8 @@ struct mlx5_ib_create_cq { __u64 db_addr; /* 8 8 */ __u32 cqe_size; /* 16 4 */ - /* size: 20, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */ - /* last cacheline: 20 bytes */ + /* size: 24, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */ + /* padding: 4 */ + /* last cacheline: 24 bytes */ }; This ABI disagreement will make an x86_64 kernel try to read past the buffer provided by an i386 binary. When boundary check will be implemented, a x86_64 kernel will refuse to read past the i386 userspace provided buffer and the uverb will fail. Anyway, if the structure lies in memory on a page boundary and next page is not mapped, ib_copy_from_udata() will fail when trying to read the 4 bytes of padding and the uverb will fail. This patch makes create_cq_user() takes care of the input data size to handle the case where no padding is provided. This way, x86_64 kernel will be able to handle struct mlx5_ib_create_cq as sent by unpatched and patched i386 libmlx5. Link: http://marc.info/?i=cover.1399309513.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Fixes: e126ba97dba9e ("mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapter") Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/user.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/user.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/user.h b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/user.h
index 0f4f8e42a17f..d44ecd2c2faf 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/user.h
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/user.h
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ struct mlx5_ib_create_cq {
__u64 buf_addr;
__u64 db_addr;
__u32 cqe_size;
+ __u32 reserved; /* explicit padding (optional on i386) */
};
struct mlx5_ib_create_cq_resp {