Re: [PATCH] vfio/type1: Fix VA->PA translation for PFNMAP VMAs in vaddr_get_pfn()

[Sean Christopherson]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 01:40:05PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > I'm mostly confident this is correct from the standpoint that it generates
> > the correct VA->PA.  I'm far less confident the end result is what VFIO
> > wants, there appears to be a fair bit of magic going on that I don't fully
> > understand, e.g. I'm a bit mystified as to how this ever worked in any
> > capacity.
> 
> Yeah, that magic was copied from KVM's hva_to_pfn(), which split this
> part out into hva_to_pfn_remapped() in 92176a8ede57 and then in

Wowsers.  I don't suppose anyone knows how/if KVM prevented that BUG_ON()
in hva_to_pfn() from being triggered by a malicious/miconfigured userspace?

> add6a0cd1c5b adopted a follow_pfn() approach, but also added forcing a
> user fault and retry mechanism, iiuc.  Cc'ing Paolo and Andrea to see
> if we should consider something similar.  We'd be forcing the fault on
> user mapping, not first access though, so I'm not sure if it's still
> useful.

Hmm, because the fault would trigger on map, userspace could provide the
same effective result by touching the page before calling into VFIO, i.e.
doesn't seem like adding fixup_user_fault() would add much other than
complexity.

> > Mapping PFNMAP VMAs into the IOMMU without using a mmu_notifier also
> > seems dangerous, e.g. if the subsystem associated with the VMA
> > unmaps/remaps the VMA then the IOMMU will end up with stale
> > translations.
> 
> The original use case was to support mapping MMIO ranges between
> devices to support p2p within a VM instance, so remapping the VMA was
> not a concern.  But yes, as this might be used beyond that limited
> case for something like rdma, it should be expanded.  Patches?

Heh, I don't have a use case for any of this.  Quite the opposite actually,
this was encountered because the VFIO memory listener in Qemu was trying to
map SGX EPC memory for DMA.  I segued into this patch only because the WARN
on PA!=0 caught my eye.

> > Last thought, using PA==0 for the error seems unnecessarily risky,
> > e.g. why not use something similar to KVM_PFN_ERR_* or an explicit
> > return code?
> 
> We're just consuming what the IOMMU driver provide.  Both Intel and AMD
> return zero for a page not found.  In retrospect, yeah, we probably
> should have balked at that.
> 
> >  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> > b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c index 85b32c325282..c2ada190c5cb
> > 100644 --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> > @@ -342,8 +342,8 @@ static int vaddr_get_pfn(struct mm_struct *mm,
> > unsigned long vaddr, vma = find_vma_intersection(mm, vaddr, vaddr +
> > 1); 
> >  	if (vma && vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP) {
> > -		*pfn = ((vaddr - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT) +
> > vma->vm_pgoff;
> > -		if (is_invalid_reserved_pfn(*pfn))
> > +		if (!follow_pfn(vma, vaddr, pfn) &&
> > +		    is_invalid_reserved_pfn(*pfn))
> >  			ret = 0;
> >  	}
> >  done:
> 
> Should we consume that error code?
> 
> 	ret = follow_pfn(vma, vaddr, pfn);
> 	if (!ret && !is_invalid_reserved_pfn(*pfn))
> 		ret = -EINVAL;

Not sure it matters?  gup() returns -EINVAL on PFNMAP, follow_pfn() returns
-EINVAL for all error cases, and the delta would also return -EINVAL.
Generally speaking, letting the first error "win" usually seems like the
way to go, e.g. to avoid squashing a meaningful error code.  But AFAICT
it's a moot point.