Re: [PATCH] cxl/edac: Mask DPA flags in the event record cache key

[Dave Jiang]

On 10/30/26 12:27 AM, Jongwon Lee wrote:
> The low bits of the DPA in a General Media or DRAM event record are
> flags: bit 0 is VOLATILE and bit 1 is NOT_REPAIRABLE. The trace events
> report the DPA with CXL_DPA_MASK applied, but cxl_store_rec_gen_media()
> and cxl_store_rec_dram() use the raw value as the xarray key.
> 
> User space reads the DPA from the trace event and writes it to the
> mem_repair dpa attribute. If the record had any flag set, xa_load()
> misses it and the repair fails with -EINVAL. The raw key also lets a
> repair go through for a record the device marked NOT_REPAIRABLE, if the
> DPA is written with bit 1 set.
> 
> Key the records by the masked DPA and skip records marked
> NOT_REPAIRABLE.
> 
> Co-developed with Claude Code.

You can drop this now. Or just put it under ---

> 
> Fixes: 0b5ccb0de1e2 ("cxl/edac: Support for finding memory operation attributes from the current boot")
> Signed-off-by: Jongwon Lee <ai@xxxxxxxxx>

Is this a real email address? Please use your actual email. 

> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     Tested on QEMU master (b574eaf) with a CXL type 3 device, region
>     committed, KASAN and PROVE_LOCKING on. DRAM events injected with
>     cxl-inject-dram-event at 0x1001, 0x2000 and 0x3002, then a repair
>     requested through mem_repair0..4. Same result for all five:
>     
>       DPA written   before    after
>       0x1000        -EINVAL   ok
>       0x1001        ok        -EINVAL
>       0x2000        ok        ok
>       0x3000        -EINVAL   -EINVAL
>       0x3002        ok        -EINVAL
>       0x5000        -EINVAL   -EINVAL
>     
>     No KASAN, lockdep or WARN output. Only DRAM events were injected; the
>     General Media path has the same change but was not exercised. Not
>     tested on real CXL hardware.
> 
>  drivers/cxl/core/edac.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/edac.c b/drivers/cxl/core/edac.c
> index 34b81e8dfb..b3dfc33ca6 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/core/edac.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/core/edac.c
> @@ -918,6 +918,21 @@ struct cxl_mem_repair_attrbs {
>  	enum cxl_mem_repair_type repair_type;
>  };
>  
> +/*
> + * The low bits of the event record DPA are flags (VOLATILE, NOT_REPAIRABLE).
> + * Records are looked up by the DPA user space writes back, which comes from
> + * the trace event and has the flags masked off, so key them the same way.
> + */
> +static unsigned long cxl_rec_key(const struct cxl_event_media_hdr *hdr)
> +{
> +	return le64_to_cpu(hdr->phys_addr) & CXL_DPA_MASK;
> +}
> +
> +static bool cxl_rec_not_repairable(const struct cxl_event_media_hdr *hdr)
> +{
> +	return le64_to_cpu(hdr->phys_addr) & CXL_DPA_NOT_REPAIRABLE;
> +}
> +
>  static struct cxl_event_gen_media *
>  cxl_find_rec_gen_media(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd,
>  		       struct cxl_mem_repair_attrbs *attrbs)
> @@ -929,7 +944,7 @@ cxl_find_rec_gen_media(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd,
>  		return NULL;
>  
>  	rec = xa_load(&array_rec->rec_gen_media, attrbs->dpa);
> -	if (!rec)
> +	if (!rec || cxl_rec_not_repairable(&rec->media_hdr))
>  		return NULL;
>  
>  	if (attrbs->repair_type == CXL_PPR)
> @@ -950,7 +965,7 @@ cxl_find_rec_dram(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd,
>  		return NULL;
>  
>  	rec = xa_load(&array_rec->rec_dram, attrbs->dpa);
> -	if (!rec)
> +	if (!rec || cxl_rec_not_repairable(&rec->media_hdr))
>  		return NULL;
>  
>  	validity_flags = get_unaligned_le16(rec->media_hdr.validity_flags);
> @@ -1105,8 +1120,7 @@ int cxl_store_rec_gen_media(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd, union cxl_event *evt)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	old_rec = xa_store(&array_rec->rec_gen_media,
> -			   le64_to_cpu(rec->media_hdr.phys_addr), rec,
> -			   GFP_KERNEL);
> +			   cxl_rec_key(&rec->media_hdr), rec, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (xa_is_err(old_rec)) {
>  		kfree(rec);
>  		return xa_err(old_rec);
> @@ -1135,8 +1149,7 @@ int cxl_store_rec_dram(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd, union cxl_event *evt)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	old_rec = xa_store(&array_rec->rec_dram,
> -			   le64_to_cpu(rec->media_hdr.phys_addr), rec,
> -			   GFP_KERNEL);
> +			   cxl_rec_key(&rec->media_hdr), rec, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (xa_is_err(old_rec)) {
>  		kfree(rec);
>  		return xa_err(old_rec);