7.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Stian Halseth [ Upstream commit 0c6da21fa35e03fc74f09895433ccd6d4a9c3530 ] __send_request() maps the request's pages into the LDC channel's map table (ldc_map_sg()), fills in the descriptor and marks it VIO_DESC_READY before ringing the doorbell via __vdc_tx_trigger(). When the trigger fails, the error path only prints a message: the descriptor stays READY and the cookies are never unmapped. The mapping is normally released in vdc_end_one() when the peer completes the descriptor - but a descriptor whose doorbell was never sent will never complete, and since dr->prod is not advanced on failure, the reset path (vdc_requeue_inflight(), which walks [cons, prod)) never visits it either. The map table entries are leaked permanently. Since commit a11f6ca9aef9 ("sunvdc: Do not spin in an infinite loop when vio_ldc_send() returns EAGAIN") trigger failures occur in practice under load, so every resulting I/O error also leaks one request's worth of entries from the fixed-size (8192 entries per channel) map table. Because the allocator hands out contiguous ranges, fragmentation makes large multi-segment requests fail first as the table drains, until ldc_map_sg() fails permanently and the disk is dead until reboot. It also makes any retry-based recovery unusable: requeuing the request on -EAGAIN remaps the pages on every attempt, overwriting desc->cookies and orphaning the previous mapping, so the table drains at the retry rate. This is the memory exhaustion observed when the requeue approach was first tested in October 2025. Roll back on failure: unmap the cookies, mark the descriptor FREE again and clear the request entry. If the trigger failed with -ENOTCONN, __vdc_tx_trigger() has already reset the port, which tears down and reallocates both the dring and the LDC channel including its map table - nothing to roll back, and the stale descriptor must not be touched. Fixes: a11f6ca9aef9 ("sunvdc: Do not spin in an infinite loop when vio_ldc_send() returns EAGAIN") Reported-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Link: https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/2 Signed-off-by: Stian Halseth Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260901173947.3292110-2-stian@itx.no Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/block/sunvdc.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/sunvdc.c b/drivers/block/sunvdc.c index 020bd9f1a7b6a..24ad56536ed60 100644 --- a/drivers/block/sunvdc.c +++ b/drivers/block/sunvdc.c @@ -525,6 +525,23 @@ static int __send_request(struct request *req) err = __vdc_tx_trigger(port); if (err < 0) { printk(KERN_ERR PFX "vdc_tx_trigger() failure, err=%d\n", err); + /* + * If the port was reset (-ENOTCONN), the dring and the + * LDC channel including all of its mappings are already + * torn down and reallocated - there is nothing to undo + * and @desc must not be touched. + * + * For any other failure the descriptor was never handed + * to the peer: unmap the cookies and free the descriptor + * again, so that a later retry of the request does not + * leak LDC map table entries. + */ + if (err != -ENOTCONN) { + ldc_unmap(port->vio.lp, desc->cookies, + desc->ncookies); + desc->hdr.state = VIO_DESC_FREE; + rqe->req = NULL; + } } else { port->req_id++; dr->prod = vio_dring_next(dr, dr->prod); -- 2.53.0