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SRS cap is the hardware cap telling if the hardware IOMMU can support
requests seeking supervisor privilege or not. SRE bit in scalable-mode
PASID table entry is treated as Reserved(0) for implementation not
supporting SRS cap.
Checking SRS cap before setting SRE bit can avoid the non-recoverable
fault of "Non-zero reserved field set in PASID Table Entry" caused by
setting SRE bit while there is no SRS cap support. The fault messages
look like below:
DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
DMAR: [DMA Read NO_PASID] Request device [00:0d.0] fault addr 0x1154e1000
[fault reason 0x5a]
SM: Non-zero reserved field set in PASID Table Entry
Fixes: 6f7db75e1c46 ("iommu/vt-d: Add second level page table interface")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tina Zhang <tina.zhang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221115070346.1112273-1-tina.zhang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116051544.26540-3-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
The A/D bits are preseted for IOVA over first level(FL) usage for both
kernel DMA (i.e, domain typs is IOMMU_DOMAIN_DMA) and user space DMA
usage (i.e., domain type is IOMMU_DOMAIN_UNMANAGED).
Presetting A bit in FL requires to preset the bit in every related paging
entries, including the non-leaf ones. Otherwise, hardware may treat this
as an error. For example, in a case of ECAP_REG.SMPWC==0, DMA faults might
occur with below DMAR fault messages (wrapped for line length) dumped.
DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
DMAR: [DMA Read NO_PASID] Request device [aa:00.0] fault addr 0x10c3a6000
[fault reason 0x90]
SM: A/D bit update needed in first-level entry when set up in no snoop
Fixes: 289b3b005cb9 ("iommu/vt-d: Preset A/D bits for user space DMA usage")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tina Zhang <tina.zhang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221113010324.1094483-1-tina.zhang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116051544.26540-2-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Pull MIPS fixes from Thomas Bogendoerfer:
- fix jump label branch range check
- check kmalloc failures in Loongson64 kexec
- fix builds with clang-14
- fix char/int handling in pic32
* tag 'mips-fixes_6.1_1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux:
MIPS: pic32: treat port as signed integer
MIPS: jump_label: Fix compat branch range check
mips: alchemy: gpio: Include the right header
MIPS: Loongson64: Add WARN_ON on kexec related kmalloc failed
MIPS: fix duplicate definitions for exported symbols
mips: boot/compressed: use __NO_FORTIFY
Pull EFI fixes from Ard Biesheuvel:
- Force the use of SetVirtualAddressMap() on Ampera Altra arm64
machines, which crash in SetTime() if no virtual remapping is used
This is the first time we've added an SMBIOS based quirk on arm64,
but fortunately, we can just call a EFI protocol to grab the type #1
SMBIOS record when running in the stub, so we don't need all the
machinery we have in the kernel proper to parse SMBIOS data.
- Drop a spurious warning on misaligned runtime regions when using 16k
or 64k pages on arm64
* tag 'efi-fixes-for-v6.1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
arm64: efi: Fix handling of misaligned runtime regions and drop warning
arm64: efi: Force the use of SetVirtualAddressMap() on Altra machines
get_port_from_cmdline() returns an int, yet is assigned to a char, which
is wrong in its own right, but also, with char becoming unsigned, this
poses problems, because -1 is used as an error value. Further
complicating things, fw_init_early_console() is only ever called with a
-1 argument. Fix this up by removing the unused argument from
fw_init_early_console() and treating port as a proper signed integer.
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
"Three small fixes, all in drivers.
The sas one is in an unlikely error leg, the debug one is to make it
more standards conformant and the ibmvfc one is to fix a user visible
bug where a failover could lose all paths to the device"
* tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
scsi: scsi_debug: Make the READ CAPACITY response compliant with ZBC
scsi: scsi_transport_sas: Fix error handling in sas_phy_add()
scsi: ibmvfc: Avoid path failures during live migration
Currently, when mapping the EFI runtime regions in the EFI page tables,
we complain about misaligned regions in a rather noisy way, using
WARN().
Not only does this produce a lot of irrelevant clutter in the log, it is
factually incorrect, as misaligned runtime regions are actually allowed
by the EFI spec as long as they don't require conflicting memory types
within the same 64k page.
So let's drop the warning, and tweak the code so that we
- take both the start and end of the region into account when checking
for misalignment
- only revert to RWX mappings for non-code regions if misaligned code
regions are also known to exist.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cast upper bound of branch range to long to do signed compare,
avoid negative offset trigger this warning.
Fixes: 9b6584e35f40 ("MIPS: jump_label: Use compact branches for >= r6")
Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Pull additional sound fix from Takashi Iwai:
"A regression fix for the latest memalloc helper change"
* tag 'sound-fix-6.1-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound:
ALSA: memalloc: Try dma_alloc_noncontiguous() at first
From ZBC-1:
- RC BASIS = 0: The RETURNED LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS field indicates the
highest LBA of a contiguous range of zones that are not sequential write
required zones starting with the first zone.
- RC BASIS = 1: The RETURNED LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS field indicates the LBA
of the last logical block on the logical unit.
The current scsi_debug READ CAPACITY response does not comply with the
above if there are one or more sequential write required zones. SCSI
initiators need a way to retrieve the largest valid LBA from SCSI
devices. Reporting the largest valid LBA if there are one or more
sequential zones requires to set the RC BASIS field in the READ CAPACITY
response to one. Hence this patch.
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Suggested-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102193248.3177608-1-bvanassche@acm.org
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Ampere Altra machines are reported to misbehave when the SetTime() EFI
runtime service is called after ExitBootServices() but before calling
SetVirtualAddressMap(). Given that the latter is horrid, pointless and
explicitly documented as optional by the EFI spec, we no longer invoke
it at boot if the configured size of the VA space guarantees that the
EFI runtime memory regions can remain mapped 1:1 like they are at boot
time.
On Ampere Altra machines, this results in SetTime() calls issued by the
rtc-efi driver triggering synchronous exceptions during boot. We can
now recover from those without bringing down the system entirely, due to
commit 23715a26c8d81291 ("arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous
exceptions occurring in firmware"). However, it would be better to avoid
the issue entirely, given that the firmware appears to remain in a funny
state after this.
So attempt to identify these machines based on the 'family' field in the
type #1 SMBIOS record, and call SetVirtualAddressMap() unconditionally
in that case.
Tested-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
The local GPIO driver in the MIPS Alchemy is including the legacy
<linux/gpio.h> header but what it wants is to implement a GPIO
driver so include <linux/gpio/driver.h> instead.
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Pull ata fixes from Damien Le Moal:
"Several libata generic code fixes for rc5:
- Add missing translation of the SYNCHRONIZE CACHE 16 scsi command as
this command is mandatory for host-managed ZBC drives.
The lack of support for it in libata-scsi was causing issues with
some passthrough applications using ZBC drives (from Shin'ichiro).
- Fix the error path of libata-transport host, port, link and device
attributes initialization (from Yingliang).
- Prevent issuing new commands to a drive that is in the NCQ error
state and undergoing recovery (From Niklas).
This bug went unnoticed for a long time as commands issued to a
drive in error state are aborted immediately and retried by the
scsi layer, hiding the useless abort-and-retry sequence"
* tag 'ata-6.1-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dlemoal/libata:
ata: libata-core: do not issue non-internal commands once EH is pending
ata: libata-transport: fix error handling in ata_tdev_add()
ata: libata-transport: fix error handling in ata_tlink_add()
ata: libata-transport: fix error handling in ata_tport_add()
ata: libata-transport: fix double ata_host_put() in ata_tport_add()
ata: libata-scsi: fix SYNCHRONIZE CACHE (16) command failure
The latest fix for the non-contiguous memalloc helper changed the
allocation method for a non-IOMMU system to use only the fallback
allocator. This should have worked, but it caused a problem sometimes
when too many non-contiguous pages are allocated that can't be treated
by HD-audio controller.
As a quirk workaround, go back to the original strategy: use
dma_alloc_noncontiguous() at first, and apply the fallback only when
it fails, but only for non-IOMMU case.
We'll need a better fix in the fallback code as well, but this
workaround should paper over most cases.
Fixes: 9736a325137b ("ALSA: memalloc: Don't fall back for SG-buffer with IOMMU")
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgSH5ubdvt76gNwa004ooZAEJL_1Q-Fyw5M2FDdqL==dg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221112084718.3305-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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