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intel-iommu: fix endless "Unknown DMAR structure type" loop

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I have a SuperMicro C2SBX motherboard with BIOS revision 1.0b.  With vt-d
enabled in the BIOS, Linux gets into an endless loop printing
"DMAR:Unknown DMAR structure type" when booting.  Here is the DMAR ACPI
table:

DMAR @ 0x7fe86dec
  0000: 44 4d 41 52 98 00 00 00 01 6f 49 6e 74 65 6c 20  DMAR.....oIntel
  0010: 4f 45 4d 44 4d 41 52 20 00 00 04 06 4c 4f 48 52  OEMDMAR ....LOHR
  0020: 01 00 00 00 23 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ....#...........
  0030: 01 00 58 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0 e8 7f 00 00 00 00  ..X.............
  0040: ff ff ef 7f 00 00 00 00 01 08 00 00 00 00 1d 00  ................
  0050: 01 08 00 00 00 00 1d 01 01 08 00 00 00 00 1d 02  ................
  0060: 01 08 00 00 00 00 1d 07 01 08 00 00 00 00 1a 00  ................
  0070: 01 08 00 00 00 00 1a 01 01 08 00 00 00 00 1a 02  ................
  0080: 01 08 00 00 00 00 1a 07 01 08 00 00 00 00 1a 07  ................
  0090: c0 00 68 00 04 10 66 60                          ..h...f`

Here are the messages printed by the kernel:

DMAR:Host address width 36
DMAR:RMRR base: 0x000000007fe8a000 end: 0x000000007fefffff
DMAR:Unknown DMAR structure type
DMAR:Unknown DMAR structure type
DMAR:Unknown DMAR structure type
...

Although I not very familiar with ACPI, to me it looks like struct
acpi_dmar_header::length == 0x0058 is incorrect, causing
parse_dmar_table() to look at an invalid offset on the next loop.  This
offset happens to have struct acpi_dmar_header::length == 0x0000, which
prevents the loop from ever terminating.  This patch checks for this
condition and bails out instead of looping forever.

Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Tony Battersby 2009-02-11 13:24:19 -08:00 committed by David Woodhouse
parent 704126ad81
commit 084eb960e8
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drivers/pci/dmar.c
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@ -330,6 +330,14 @@ parse_dmar_table(void)
entry_header = (struct acpi_dmar_header *)(dmar + 1);
while (((unsigned long)entry_header) <
(((unsigned long)dmar) + dmar_tbl->length)) {
/* Avoid looping forever on bad ACPI tables */
if (entry_header->length == 0) {
printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX
"Invalid 0-length structure\n");
ret = -EINVAL;
break;
}
dmar_table_print_dmar_entry(entry_header);
switch (entry_header->type) {