Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2020-02-23

Re: [PATCH] lib: iov_iter.c: fix a possible calculation error on remaining bytes

From: Macpaul Lin <macpaul.lin@mediatek.com>
Date: 2020-02-23 13:15:20
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On Tue, 2020-02-18 at 12:41 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 03:41:12PM +0800, Macpaul Lin wrote:
quoted
This issue was found when adbd trying to open functionfs with AIO mode.
Usually, we need to set "setprop sys.usb.ffs.aio_compat 0" to enable
adbd with AIO mode on Android.

When adbd is opening functionfs, it will try to read 24 bytes at the
fisrt read I/O control. If this reading has been failed, adbd will
try to send FUNCTIONFS_CLEAR_HALT to functionfs. When adbd is in AIO
mode, functionfs will be acted with asyncronized I/O path. After the
successful read transfer has been completed by gadget hardware, the
following series of functions will be called.
  ffs_epfile_async_io_complete() -> ffs_user_copy_worker() ->
    copy_to_iter() -> _copy_to_iter() -> copyout() ->
    iterate_and_advance() -> iterate_iovec()

Adding debug trace to these functions, it has been found that in
iterate_iovec(), the calculation result of n will be turned into zero.
   n = wanted - n; /* 0 == n = 24 - 24; */
Which causes copyout() won't copy data to userspace since the length
to be copied "v.iov_len" will be zero, which isn't correct. This also
leads ffs_copy_to_iter() always return -EFAULT. Finally adbd cannot
open functionfs and send FUNCTIONFS_CLEAR_HALT.

Signed-off-by: Macpaul Lin <macpaul.lin@mediatek.com>
---
 lib/iov_iter.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index fb29c02c6a3c..f9334144e259 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
 		skip = __v.iov_len;			\
 		n -= __v.iov_len;			\
 	}						\
-	n = wanted - n;					\
+	if (n != wanted)				\
+		n = wanted - n;				\
 }
	First of all, nothing in that line can possibly *cause*
copyout() to do anything - it's after the calls of step.  What's
more, this changes behaviour only when wanted would've been equal to
n, doesn't it?  Which translates into "no decrements of n have
happened at all", i.e. "nothing has been copied".  IOW, it's
a consequence of no copyout, not the cause of such.  You can
make copy_to_iter() lie and pretend if has copied everything
when it has copied nothing, but that won't change the underlying
bug.

	So I'm afraid your debugging is not finished - you
still need to find out what causes the copyout failures and/or
BS iov_iter padded by caller.
Thanks for your explanation. After these days, I've found this issue
only happened on arm 64-bit system, while arm 32-bit system works well.
After more debugging, it looks like arm 64 tagged ABI related issue.
I've update a new patch here: 
    usb: gadget: f_fs: try to fix AIO issue under ARM 64 bit TAGGED mode
    https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/23/16.

Thanks.
Macpaul Lin.
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