Re: [PATCH v3 12/16] PCI: Obey iomem restrictions for procfs mmap

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 6:37 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 05:54:54PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
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> > The trouble is that io_remap_pfn adjust vma->pgoff, so we'd need to
> > split that. So ideally ->mmap would never set up any ptes.
>
> /dev/mem makes pgoff == pfn so it doesn't get changed by remap.
>
> pgoff doesn't get touched for MAP_SHARED either, so there are other
> users that could work like this - eg anyone mmaping IO memory is
> probably OK.

I was more generally thinking for io_remap_pfn_users because of the
mkwrite use-case we might have in fbdev emulation in drm.

> > I guess one option would be if remap_pfn_range would steal the
> > vma->vm_ops pointer for itself, then it could set up the correct
> > ->install_ptes hook. But there's tons of callers for that, so not sure
> > that's a bright idea.
>
> The caller has to check that the mapping is still live, and I think
> hold a lock across the remap? Auto-defering it doesn't seem feasible.

Right auto-defering reopens the race, so making this work
automatically is a bit much. I guess just splitting this into a
setup/install part and then doing the install of all the ptes at first
fault should be good enough. We don't really need a new install_pages
for that, just an io_remap_pfn_range that's split in two parts.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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