Re: [PATCH 1/2] hw/ide: reset: cancel async DMA operation before reseting state

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 24/8/23 15:38, Fiona Ebner wrote:
> If there is a pending DMA operation during ide_bus_reset(), the fact
> that the IDEState is already reset before the operation is canceled
> can be problematic. In particular, ide_dma_cb() might be called and
> then use the reset IDEState which contains the signature after the
> reset. When used to construct the IO operation this leads to
> ide_get_sector() returning 0 and nsector being 1. This is particularly
> bad, because a write command will thus destroy the first sector which
> often contains a partition table or similar.
>
> Traces showing the unsolicited write happening with IDEState
> 0x5595af6949d0 being used after reset:
>
> > ahci_port_write ahci(0x5595af6923f0)[0]: port write [reg:PxSCTL] @ 0x2c: 
> > 0x00000300
> > ahci_reset_port ahci(0x5595af6923f0)[0]: reset port
> > ide_reset IDEstate 0x5595af6949d0
> > ide_reset IDEstate 0x5595af694da8
> > ide_bus_reset_aio aio_cancel
> > dma_aio_cancel dbs=0x7f64600089a0
> > dma_blk_cb dbs=0x7f64600089a0 ret=0
> > dma_complete dbs=0x7f64600089a0 ret=0 cb=0x5595acd40b30
> > ahci_populate_sglist ahci(0x5595af6923f0)[0]
> > ahci_dma_prepare_buf ahci(0x5595af6923f0)[0]: prepare buf limit=512 prepared=512
> > ide_dma_cb IDEState 0x5595af6949d0; sector_num=0 n=1 cmd=DMA WRITE
> > dma_blk_io dbs=0x7f6420802010 bs=0x5595ae2c6c30 offset=0 to_dev=1
> > dma_blk_cb dbs=0x7f6420802010 ret=0
>
> > (gdb) p *qiov
> > $11 = {iov = 0x7f647c76d840, niov = 1, {{nalloc = 1, local_iov = {iov_base = 
> > 0x0,
> >        iov_len = 512}}, {__pad = "\001\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000",
> >        size = 512}}}
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  blk_aio_pwritev (blk=0x5595ae2c6c30, offset=0, qiov=0x7f6420802070, flags=0,
> >      cb=0x5595ace6f0b0 <dma_blk_cb>, opaque=0x7f6420802010)
> >      at ../block/block-backend.c:1682
> > #1  0x00005595ace6f185 in dma_blk_cb (opaque=0x7f6420802010, ret=<optimized 
> > out>)
> >      at ../softmmu/dma-helpers.c:179
> > #2  0x00005595ace6f778 in dma_blk_io (ctx=0x5595ae0609f0,
> >      sg=sg@entry=0x5595af694d00, offset=offset@entry=0, align=align@entry=512,
> >      io_func=io_func@entry=0x5595ace6ee30 <dma_blk_write_io_func>,
> >      io_func_opaque=io_func_opaque@entry=0x5595ae2c6c30,
> >      cb=0x5595acd40b30 <ide_dma_cb>, opaque=0x5595af6949d0,
> >      dir=DMA_DIRECTION_TO_DEVICE) at ../softmmu/dma-helpers.c:244
> > #3  0x00005595ace6f90a in dma_blk_write (blk=0x5595ae2c6c30,
> >      sg=sg@entry=0x5595af694d00, offset=offset@entry=0, align=align@entry=512,
> >      cb=cb@entry=0x5595acd40b30 <ide_dma_cb>, 
> > opaque=opaque@entry=0x5595af6949d0)
> >      at ../softmmu/dma-helpers.c:280
> > #4  0x00005595acd40e18 in ide_dma_cb (opaque=0x5595af6949d0, ret=<optimized 
> > out>)
> >      at ../hw/ide/core.c:953
> > #5  0x00005595ace6f319 in dma_complete (ret=0, dbs=0x7f64600089a0)
> >      at ../softmmu/dma-helpers.c:107
> > #6  dma_blk_cb (opaque=0x7f64600089a0, ret=0) at ../softmmu/dma-helpers.c:127
> > #7  0x00005595ad12227d in blk_aio_complete (acb=0x7f6460005b10)
> >      at ../block/block-backend.c:1527
> > #8  blk_aio_complete (acb=0x7f6460005b10) at ../block/block-backend.c:1524
> > #9  blk_aio_write_entry (opaque=0x7f6460005b10) at ../block/block-backend.c:1594
> > #10 0x00005595ad258cfb in coroutine_trampoline (i0=<optimized out>,
> >      i1=<optimized out>) at ../util/coroutine-ucontext.c:177
>
> Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
> ---
>   hw/ide/core.c | 14 +++++++-------
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>