net/9p: Fix kernel crash with msize 512K
authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:56:04 +0000 (16:56 +0000)
committerEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:17:15 +0000 (08:17 -0500)
With msize equal to 512K (PAGE_SIZE * VIRTQUEUE_NUM), we hit multiple
crashes. This patch fix those.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
net/9p/trans_virtio.c

index 175b513..e317583 100644 (file)
@@ -263,7 +263,6 @@ p9_virtio_request(struct p9_client *client, struct p9_req_t *req)
 {
        int in, out, inp, outp;
        struct virtio_chan *chan = client->trans;
-       char *rdata = (char *)req->rc+sizeof(struct p9_fcall);
        unsigned long flags;
        size_t pdata_off = 0;
        struct trans_rpage_info *rpinfo = NULL;
@@ -346,7 +345,8 @@ req_retry_pinned:
                 * Arrange in such a way that server places header in the
                 * alloced memory and payload onto the user buffer.
                 */
-               inp = pack_sg_list(chan->sg, out, VIRTQUEUE_NUM, rdata, 11);
+               inp = pack_sg_list(chan->sg, out,
+                                  VIRTQUEUE_NUM, req->rc->sdata, 11);
                /*
                 * Running executables in the filesystem may result in
                 * a read request with kernel buffer as opposed to user buffer.
@@ -366,8 +366,8 @@ req_retry_pinned:
                }
                in += inp;
        } else {
-               in = pack_sg_list(chan->sg, out, VIRTQUEUE_NUM, rdata,
-                               req->rc->capacity);
+               in = pack_sg_list(chan->sg, out, VIRTQUEUE_NUM,
+                                 req->rc->sdata, req->rc->capacity);
        }
 
        err = virtqueue_add_buf(chan->vq, chan->sg, out, in, req->tc);
@@ -592,7 +592,14 @@ static struct p9_trans_module p9_virtio_trans = {
        .close = p9_virtio_close,
        .request = p9_virtio_request,
        .cancel = p9_virtio_cancel,
-       .maxsize = PAGE_SIZE*VIRTQUEUE_NUM,
+
+       /*
+        * We leave one entry for input and one entry for response
+        * headers. We also skip one more entry to accomodate, address
+        * that are not at page boundary, that can result in an extra
+        * page in zero copy.
+        */
+       .maxsize = PAGE_SIZE * (VIRTQUEUE_NUM - 3),
        .pref = P9_TRANS_PREF_PAYLOAD_SEP,
        .def = 0,
        .owner = THIS_MODULE,