Re: [RFC 0/3] iommu/iova: Unsafe locking in find_iova()

[Joerg Roedel]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 03:10:47PM +0100, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> Yes, as far as I can see, there are code-paths which may try to handle
> it at the same time:
> o memory notifiers for hot-unplug (intel-iommu.c)
> o drivers unloading calls free_iova(), which in the result calls
>   find_iova()
> o I see at least one driver that frees iova during it's normal work
>   too: scif_rma.c:scif_free_window_offset()

Yeah, but the IOVAs freed in the memory notifiers are just the ones for
the direct-mapped RMRR regions requested by firmware, not the IOVAs
allocated by any driver, so I think this shouldn't be a problem.


Regards,

	Joerg