tree f435c4c7a947a84a9c711840322910e607ea2149
parent a8237b32a3faab155a5dc8f886452147ce73da3e
author Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> 1399311202 +0200
committer Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> 1401216796 -0700

IB/mlx5: add missing padding at end of struct mlx5_ib_create_srq

The i386 ABI disagrees with most other ABIs regarding alignment of
data type larger than 4 bytes: on most ABIs a padding must be added at
end of the structures, while it is not required on i386.

So for most ABIs struct mlx5_ib_create_srq gets implicitly padded to be
aligned on a 8 bytes multiple, while for i386, such padding is not
added.

Tool pahole could be used to find such implicit padding:

  $ pahole --anon_include \
           --nested_anon_include \
           --recursive \
           --class_name mlx5_ib_create_srq \
           drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.o

Then, structure layout can be compared between i386 and x86_64:

  +++ obj-i386/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.o.pahole.txt    2014-03-28 11:43:07.386413682 +0100
  --- obj-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.o.pahole.txt  2014-03-27 13:06:17.788472721 +0100
  @@ -69,7 +68,6 @@ struct mlx5_ib_create_srq {
          __u64                      db_addr;              /*     8     8 */
          __u32                      flags;                /*    16     4 */

  -       /* size: 20, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */
  -       /* last cacheline: 20 bytes */
  +       /* size: 24, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */
  +       /* padding: 4 */
  +       /* last cacheline: 24 bytes */
   };

ABI disagreement will make an x86_64 kernel try to read past
the buffer provided by an i386 binary.

When boundary check will be implemented, the x86_64 kernel will
refuse to read past the i386 userspace provided buffer and the
uverb will fail.

Anyway, if the structure lay in memory on a page boundary and
next page is not mapped, ib_copy_from_udata() will fail and the
uverb will fail.

This patch makes create_srq_user() takes care of the input
data size to handle the case where no padding was provided.

This way, x86_64 kernel will be able to handle struct mlx5_ib_create_srq
as sent by unpatched and patched i386 libmlx5.

Link: http://marc.info/?i=cover.1399309513.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: e126ba97dba9e ("mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapter")
Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>