Re: [PATCH 01/11] iommu: Add device dma ownership set/release interfaces

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Tue Nov 16 2021 - 08:46:13 EST


On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 09:57:30AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> On 11/15/21 9:14 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:05:42AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> > > +enum iommu_dma_owner {
> > > + DMA_OWNER_NONE,
> > > + DMA_OWNER_KERNEL,
> > > + DMA_OWNER_USER,
> > > +};
> > > +
> >
> > > + enum iommu_dma_owner dma_owner;
> > > + refcount_t owner_cnt;
> > > + struct file *owner_user_file;
> >
> > I'd just overload the ownership into owner_user_file,
> >
> > NULL -> no owner
> > (struct file *)1UL) -> kernel
> > real pointer -> user
> >
> > Which could simplify a lot of the code dealing with the owner.
> >
>
> Yeah! Sounds reasonable. I will make this in the next version.

It would be good to figure out how to make iommu_attach_device()
enforce no other driver binding as a kernel user without a file *, as
Robin pointed to, before optimizing this.

This fixes an existing bug where iommu_attach_device() only checks the
group size and is vunerable to a hot plug increasing the group size
after it returns. That check should be replaced by this series's logic
instead.

Jason