From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
Michael Thayer <michael.thayer@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] virt: vbox: Use __get_free_pages instead of kmalloc for DMA32 memory
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:21:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180329112116.26488-2-hdegoede@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180329112116.26488-1-hdegoede@redhat.com>
It is not possible to get DMA32 zone memory through kmalloc, causing
the vboxguest driver to malfunction due to getting memory above
4G which the PCI device cannot handle.
This commit changes the kmalloc calls where the 4G limit matters to
using __get_free_pages() fixing vboxguest not working on x86_64 guests
with more then 4G RAM.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Eloy Coto Pereiro <eloy.coto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
---
drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_linux.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_linux.c b/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_linux.c
index 82e280d38cc2..398d22693234 100644
--- a/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_linux.c
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ static long vbg_misc_device_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int req,
struct vbg_session *session = filp->private_data;
size_t returned_size, size;
struct vbg_ioctl_hdr hdr;
+ bool is_vmmdev_req;
int ret = 0;
void *buf;
@@ -106,8 +107,17 @@ static long vbg_misc_device_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int req,
if (size > SZ_16M)
return -E2BIG;
- /* __GFP_DMA32 because IOCTL_VMMDEV_REQUEST passes this to the host */
- buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_DMA32);
+ /*
+ * IOCTL_VMMDEV_REQUEST needs the buffer to be below 4G to avoid
+ * the need for a bounce-buffer and another copy later on.
+ */
+ is_vmmdev_req = (req & ~IOCSIZE_MASK) == VBG_IOCTL_VMMDEV_REQUEST(0) ||
+ req == VBG_IOCTL_VMMDEV_REQUEST_BIG;
+
+ if (is_vmmdev_req)
+ buf = vbg_req_alloc(size, VBG_IOCTL_HDR_TYPE_DEFAULT);
+ else
+ buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -132,7 +142,10 @@ static long vbg_misc_device_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int req,
ret = -EFAULT;
out:
- kfree(buf);
+ if (is_vmmdev_req)
+ vbg_req_free(buf, size);
+ else
+ kfree(buf);
return ret;
}
diff --git a/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c b/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c
index bad915463359..bf4474214b4d 100644
--- a/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c
+++ b/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c
@@ -65,8 +65,9 @@ VBG_LOG(vbg_debug, pr_debug);
void *vbg_req_alloc(size_t len, enum vmmdev_request_type req_type)
{
struct vmmdev_request_header *req;
+ int order = get_order(PAGE_ALIGN(len));
- req = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_DMA32);
+ req = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA32, order);
if (!req)
return NULL;
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ void vbg_req_free(void *req, size_t len)
if (!req)
return;
- kfree(req);
+ free_pages((unsigned long)req, get_order(PAGE_ALIGN(len)));
}
/* Note this function returns a VBox status code, not a negative errno!! */
--
2.17.0.rc1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-29 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-29 11:21 [PATCH 1/3] virt: vbox: Add vbg_req_free() helper function Hans de Goede
2018-03-29 11:21 ` Hans de Goede [this message]
2018-03-29 11:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] virt: vbox: Use __get_free_pages instead of kmalloc for DMA32 memory Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-29 11:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-29 13:42 ` Hans de Goede
2018-03-29 16:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-03 13:20 ` Hans de Goede
2018-03-29 11:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] virt: vbox: Log an error whenwe fail to get the host version Hans de Goede
2018-03-29 11:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] virt: vbox: Add vbg_req_free() helper function Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-29 13:12 ` Hans de Goede
2018-03-29 11:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-29 13:16 ` Hans de Goede
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