Re: [PATCH 07/13] mm: close race in generic_access_phys

[John Hubbard]

On 10/7/20 9:44 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Way back it was a reasonable assumptions that iomem mappings never
> change the pfn range they point at. But this has changed:
>
> - gpu drivers dynamically manage their memory nowadays, invalidating
>    ptes with unmap_mapping_range when buffers get moved
>
> - contiguous dma allocations have moved from dedicated carvetouts to

s/carvetouts/carveouts/

>    cma regions. This means if we miss the unmap the pfn might contain
>    pagecache or anon memory (well anything allocated with GFP_MOVEABLE)
>
> - even /dev/mem now invalidates mappings when the kernel requests that
>    iomem region when CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM is set, see 3234ac664a87
>    ("/dev/mem: Revoke mappings when a driver claims the region")

Thanks for putting these references into the log, it's very helpful.
...
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index fcfc4ca36eba..8d467e23b44e 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -4873,28 +4873,68 @@ int follow_phys(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>   	return ret;
>   }
>   
> +/**
> + * generic_access_phys - generic implementation for iomem mmap access
> + * @vma: the vma to access
> + * @addr: userspace addres, not relative offset within @vma
> + * @buf: buffer to read/write
> + * @len: length of transfer
> + * @write: set to FOLL_WRITE when writing, otherwise reading
> + *
> + * This is a generic implementation for &vm_operations_struct.access for an
> + * iomem mapping. This callback is used by access_process_vm() when the @vma is
> + * not page based.
> + */
>   int generic_access_phys(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>   			void *buf, int len, int write)
>   {
>   	resource_size_t phys_addr;
>   	unsigned long prot = 0;
>   	void __iomem *maddr;
> +	pte_t *ptep, pte;
> +	spinlock_t *ptl;
>   	int offset = addr & (PAGE_SIZE-1);
> +	int ret = -EINVAL;
> +
> +	if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP)))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +retry:
> +	if (follow_pte(vma->vm_mm, addr, &ptep, &ptl))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	pte = *ptep;
> +	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
>   
> -	if (follow_phys(vma, addr, write, &prot, &phys_addr))
> +	prot = pgprot_val(pte_pgprot(pte));
> +	phys_addr = (resource_size_t)pte_pfn(pte) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> +
> +	if ((write & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_write(pte))
>   		return -EINVAL;
>   
>   	maddr = ioremap_prot(phys_addr, PAGE_ALIGN(len + offset), prot);
>   	if (!maddr)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
>   
> +	if (follow_pte(vma->vm_mm, addr, &ptep, &ptl))
> +		goto out_unmap;
> +
> +	if (pte_same(pte, *ptep)) {


The ioremap area is something I'm sorta new to, so a newbie question:
is it possible for the same pte to already be there, ever? If so, we
be stuck in an infinite loop here.  I'm sure that's not the case, but
it's not yet obvious to me why it's impossible. Resource reservations
maybe?


thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA