[PATCH] nvme-pci: fix CMB mapping when CMBSZ Size field is zero

kangfenglong kangfenglong at huawei.com
Thu Jun 18 01:26:16 PDT 2026


The controller memory buffer size is defined by the SZ field in the
CMBSZ register (bits 31:12). According to the NVMe specification, a
value of zero in the SZ field indicates that no CMB is present.

Commit f65efd6dfe4e ("nvme-pci: clean up CMB initialization") replaced
the check for a zero SZ field with a check for a zero CMBSZ register
value, under the assumption that a zero register implies no CMB.
However, a CMBSZ register can be non-zero while the SZ field is zero,
for example when Size Units (SZU) is set to a non-zero value but the
actual size is zero (e.g. CMBSZ = 0x100: SZU = 1, SZ = 0).

When this happens, nvme_map_cmb() proceeds to compute a size of zero,
passes the alignment checks (zero is always aligned), and calls
pci_p2pdma_add_resource() with size=0. The P2PDMA subsystem then
defaults size to the entire remaining BAR, which may not be properly
aligned for memory hotplug, triggering:

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at mm/memory_hotplug.c:396 __add_pages
  Misaligned __add_pages start: 0x494a0000 end: 0x494a000f

Fix this by restoring the check for a zero SZ field, which explicitly
verifies that the controller actually has a CMB before proceeding with
the mapping.

Fixes: f65efd6dfe4e ("nvme-pci: clean up CMB initialization")
Signed-off-by: kangfenglong <kangfenglong at huawei.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index 8438c904ec49..530751b11019 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -2472,6 +2472,8 @@ static void nvme_map_cmb(struct nvme_dev *dev)
 	dev->cmbsz = readl(dev->bar + NVME_REG_CMBSZ);
 	if (!dev->cmbsz)
 		return;
+	if (!nvme_cmb_size(dev))
+		return;
 	dev->cmbloc = readl(dev->bar + NVME_REG_CMBLOC);

 	size = nvme_cmb_size_unit(dev) * nvme_cmb_size(dev);
--
2.47.0



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