Fix endless "Unknown DMAR structure type" loop
PATCH 1/1 Fix endless "Unknown DMAR structure type" loop
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
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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.
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drivers/pci/dmar.c renamed from drivers/pci/dmar.c.orig +8 -0
@@ -277,6 +277,14 @@ 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) {