Re: [PATCH v5 09/24] vfio, mm: fix get_user_pages_remote() and FOLL_LONGTERM

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 09:53:25PM -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.
> 
> Also, remove an unnessary pair of calls that were releasing and
> reacquiring the mmap_sem. There is no need to avoid holding mmap_sem
> just in order to call page_to_pfn().
> 
> Also, move the DAX check ("if a VMA is DAX, don't allow long term
> pinning") from the VFIO call site, all the way into the internals
> of get_user_pages_remote() and __gup_longterm_locked(). That is:
> get_user_pages_remote() calls __gup_longterm_locked(), which in turn
> calls check_dax_vmas(). It's lightly explained in the comments as well.
> 
> Thanks to Jason Gunthorpe for pointing out a clean way to fix this,
> and to Dan Williams for helping clarify the DAX refactoring.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 30 +++++-------------------------
>  mm/gup.c                        | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

Looks OK now  

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>