From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] Xen/gnttab: improve error handling in gnttab_dma_{alloc,free}_pages()
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:56:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110095605.369848-3-jgross@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261110095605.369848-1-jgross@suse.com>
From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Both decrease-reservation and populate-physmap can succeed partially. For
the former this may be pretty unlikely, but clearly the latter can hit
both out-of-memory conditions in the hypervisor or denial because of the
allocation exceeding the domain's allowance (there's no interaction with
the balloon driver here either).
In gnttab_dma_free_pages() we simply can't give back to the system what
hasn't been re-filled with backing memory. For gnttab_dma_alloc_pages()
both parts of the overall region need dealing with differently.
While no present caller of gnttab_dma_free_pages() checks its return
value, also don't use -EFAULT there: It really is an out-of-memory
condition. (In gnttab_dma_alloc_pages() -EFAULT doesn't look quite right
either, but I couldn't think of a clearly better error code there.)
Fixes: 9bdc7304f536 ("xen/grant-table: Allow allocating buffers suitable for DMA")
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
---
drivers/xen/grant-table.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
index 56a497987942..2a520080a570 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
@@ -1096,6 +1096,24 @@ int gnttab_dma_alloc_pages(struct gnttab_dma_alloc_args *args)
ret = xenmem_reservation_decrease(args->nr_pages, args->frames);
if (ret != args->nr_pages) {
pr_debug("Failed to decrease reservation for DMA buffer\n");
+ if (ret >= 0) {
+ /* Free the part where decrease didn't work. */
+ size_t done = ret << PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ if (args->coherent)
+ dma_free_coherent(args->dev, size - done,
+ args->vaddr + done,
+ args->dev_bus_addr + done);
+ else
+ dma_free_wc(args->dev, size - done,
+ args->vaddr + done,
+ args->dev_bus_addr + done);
+
+ if (!ret) /* Nothing else to do? */
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ args->nr_pages = ret;
+ }
ret = -EFAULT;
goto fail;
}
@@ -1132,7 +1150,12 @@ int gnttab_dma_free_pages(struct gnttab_dma_alloc_args *args)
ret = xenmem_reservation_increase(args->nr_pages, args->frames);
if (ret != args->nr_pages) {
pr_debug("Failed to increase reservation for DMA buffer\n");
- ret = -EFAULT;
+ /* Can only free what has been re-filled. */
+ if (!ret)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ if (ret > 0)
+ args->nr_pages = ret;
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
} else {
ret = 0;
}
--
2.56.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 9:56 [PATCH v2 0/2] " Juergen Gross
2026-11-10 9:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] xen: don't allow gnttab_dma_[alloc|free]_pages() in PV guest Juergen Gross
2026-11-10 9:59 ` Andrew Cooper
2026-11-10 10:07 ` Jürgen Groß
2026-11-10 9:56 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2026-11-10 10:20 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Xen/gnttab: improve error handling in gnttab_dma_{alloc,free}_pages() Jan Beulich
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