On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 04:33:03PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:

Both kvm (in bd2fae8da794 ("KVM: do not assume PTE is writable after
follow_pfn")) and vfio (in 07956b6269d3 ("vfio/type1: Use
follow_pte()")) have lost their callsites of follow_pfn(). All the
other ones have been switched over to unsafe_follow_pfn because they
cannot be fixed without breaking userspace api.

Argueably the vfio code is still racy, but that's kinda a bigger

vfio and kvm

picture. But since it does leak the pte beyond where it drops the pt
lock, without anything else like an mmu notifier guaranteeing
coherence, the problem is at least clearly visible in the vfio code.
So good enough with me.

I've decided to keep the explanation that after dropping the pt lock
you must have an mmu notifier if you keep using the pte somehow by
adjusting it and moving it into the kerneldoc for the new follow_pte()
function.

Cc: 3pvd@google.com
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <redacted>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <redacted>
--- 
 include/linux/mm.h |  2 --
 mm/memory.c        | 26 +++++---------------------
 mm/nommu.c         | 13 +------------
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>

Jason

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