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Re: [PATCH v3 08/23] vfio, mm: fix get_user_pages_remote() and FOLL_LONGTERM

From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Date: 2019-11-12 20:43:45
Also in: bpf, dri-devel, kvm, linux-block, linux-doc, linux-fsdevel, linux-kselftest, linux-media, linux-mm, linux-rdma, linuxppc-dev, lkml

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 04:06:45PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
As it says in the updated comment in gup.c: current FOLL_LONGTERM
behavior is incompatible with FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY because of the
FS DAX check requirement on vmas.

However, the corresponding restriction in get_user_pages_remote() was
slightly stricter than is actually required: it forbade all
FOLL_LONGTERM callers, but we can actually allow FOLL_LONGTERM callers
that do not set the "locked" arg.

Update the code and comments accordingly, and update the VFIO caller
to take advantage of this, fixing a bug as a result: the VFIO caller
is logically a FOLL_LONGTERM user.

Thanks to Jason Gunthorpe for pointing out a clean way to fix this.

Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <redacted>
Cc: Ira Weiny <redacted>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 30 +++++++++++++-----------------
 mm/gup.c                        | 13 ++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
This matches what I thought, but I think DanW should check it too, and
the vfio users should test..
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
index d864277ea16f..017689b7c32b 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
@@ -348,24 +348,20 @@ static int vaddr_get_pfn(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr,
 		flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
 
 	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	if (mm == current->mm) {
-		ret = get_user_pages(vaddr, 1, flags | FOLL_LONGTERM, page,
-				     vmas);
-	} else {
-		ret = get_user_pages_remote(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, flags, page,
-					    vmas, NULL);
-		/*
-		 * The lifetime of a vaddr_get_pfn() page pin is
-		 * userspace-controlled. In the fs-dax case this could
-		 * lead to indefinite stalls in filesystem operations.
-		 * Disallow attempts to pin fs-dax pages via this
-		 * interface.
-		 */
-		if (ret > 0 && vma_is_fsdax(vmas[0])) {
-			ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
-			put_page(page[0]);
-		}
+	ret = get_user_pages_remote(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, flags | FOLL_LONGTERM,
+				    page, vmas, NULL);
+	/*
+	 * The lifetime of a vaddr_get_pfn() page pin is
+	 * userspace-controlled. In the fs-dax case this could
+	 * lead to indefinite stalls in filesystem operations.
+	 * Disallow attempts to pin fs-dax pages via this
+	 * interface.
+	 */
+	if (ret > 0 && vma_is_fsdax(vmas[0])) {
+		ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		put_page(page[0]);
 	}
AFAIK this chunk is redundant now as it is some hack to emulate
FOLL_LONGTERM? So vmas can be deleted too.

Also unclear why this function has this:

        up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);

        if (ret == 1) {
                *pfn = page_to_pfn(page[0]);
                return 0;
        }

        down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);

Jason
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