vfio: Remove workaround for kernel DMA unmap overflow bug
A kernel bug was introduced in Linux v4.15 via commit 71a7d3d78e3c
("vfio/type1: Check for address space wrap-around on unmap"), which
added a test for address space wrap-around in the vfio DMA unmap path.
Unfortunately, due to an integer overflow, the kernel would
incorrectly detect an unmap of the last page in the 64-bit address
space as a wrap-around, causing the unmap to fail with -EINVAL.
A QEMU workaround was introduced in commit 567d7d3e6be5 ("vfio/common:
Work around kernel overflow bug in DMA unmap") to retry the unmap,
excluding the final page of the range.
The kernel bug was then fixed in Linux v5.0 via commit 58fec830fc19
("vfio/type1: Fix dma_unmap wrap-around check"). Since the oldest
supported LTS kernel is now v5.4, kernels affected by this bug are
considered deprecated, and the workaround is no longer necessary.
This change reverts 567d7d3e6be5, removing the workaround.
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1662291
Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20250926085423.375547-1-clg@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
diff --git a/hw/vfio/container-legacy.c b/hw/vfio/container-legacy.c
index c0f87f7..25a15ea 100644
--- a/hw/vfio/container-legacy.c
+++ b/hw/vfio/container-legacy.c
@@ -147,25 +147,7 @@
need_dirty_sync = true;
}
- while (ioctl(container->fd, VFIO_IOMMU_UNMAP_DMA, &unmap)) {
- /*
- * The type1 backend has an off-by-one bug in the kernel (71a7d3d78e3c
- * v4.15) where an overflow in its wrap-around check prevents us from
- * unmapping the last page of the address space. Test for the error
- * condition and re-try the unmap excluding the last page. The
- * expectation is that we've never mapped the last page anyway and this
- * unmap request comes via vIOMMU support which also makes it unlikely
- * that this page is used. This bug was introduced well after type1 v2
- * support was introduced, so we shouldn't need to test for v1. A fix
- * is queued for kernel v5.0 so this workaround can be removed once
- * affected kernels are sufficiently deprecated.
- */
- if (errno == EINVAL && unmap.size && !(unmap.iova + unmap.size) &&
- container->iommu_type == VFIO_TYPE1v2_IOMMU) {
- trace_vfio_legacy_dma_unmap_overflow_workaround();
- unmap.size -= 1ULL << ctz64(bcontainer->pgsizes);
- continue;
- }
+ if (ioctl(container->fd, VFIO_IOMMU_UNMAP_DMA, &unmap)) {
return -errno;
}
diff --git a/hw/vfio/trace-events b/hw/vfio/trace-events
index e3d571f..7496e1b 100644
--- a/hw/vfio/trace-events
+++ b/hw/vfio/trace-events
@@ -112,7 +112,6 @@
vfio_group_put(int fd) "close group->fd=%d"
vfio_device_get(const char * name, unsigned int flags, unsigned int num_regions, unsigned int num_irqs) "Device %s flags: %u, regions: %u, irqs: %u"
vfio_device_put(int fd) "close vdev->fd=%d"
-vfio_legacy_dma_unmap_overflow_workaround(void) ""
# region.c
vfio_region_write(const char *name, int index, uint64_t addr, uint64_t data, unsigned size) " (%s:region%d+0x%"PRIx64", 0x%"PRIx64 ", %d)"
