Commit 688c2953 authored by Dong Jia Shi's avatar Dong Jia Shi Committed by Cornelia Huck

vfio: ccw: bypass bad idaw address when fetching IDAL ccws

We currently return the same error code (-EFAULT) to indicate two
different error cases:
1. a bug in vfio-ccw implementation has been found.
2. a buggy channel program has been detected.

This brings difficulty for userland program (specifically Qemu) to
handle.

Let's use -EFAULT to only indicate the first case. For the second
case, we simply hand over the ccws to lower level for further
handling.

Notice:
Once a bad idaw address is detected, the current behavior is to
suppress the ssch. With this fix, the channel program will be
accepted, and part of the channel program (the part ahead of
the bad idaw) could possibly be executed by the device before
I/O conclusion.
Suggested-by: default avatarHalil Pasic <pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPierre Morel <pmorel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDong Jia Shi <bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20171011023822.42948-2-bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
parent fe3af625
......@@ -569,10 +569,6 @@ static int ccwchain_fetch_idal(struct ccwchain *chain,
for (i = 0; i < idaw_nr; i++) {
idaw_iova = *(idaws + i);
if (IS_ERR_VALUE(idaw_iova)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
goto out_free_idaws;
}
ret = pfn_array_alloc_pin(pat->pat_pa + i, cp->mdev,
idaw_iova, 1);
......
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