Re: [PATCH 5.16 0702/1039] drm/amdgpu: Dont inherit GEM object VMAs in child process

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:16:17AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 08:26:20AM +0100, Christian König wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > Am 24.01.22 um 19:41 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > > From: Rajneesh Bhardwaj <rajneesh.bhardwaj@xxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > [ Upstream commit fbcdbfde87509d523132b59f661a355c731139d0 ]
> > > 
> > > When an application having open file access to a node forks, its shared
> > > mappings also get reflected in the address space of child process even
> > > though it cannot access them with the object permissions applied. With the
> > > existing permission checks on the gem objects, it might be reasonable to
> > > also create the VMAs with VM_DONTCOPY flag so a user space application
> > > doesn't need to explicitly call the madvise(addr, len, MADV_DONTFORK)
> > > system call to prevent the pages in the mapped range to appear in the
> > > address space of the child process. It also prevents the memory leaks
> > > due to additional reference counts on the mapped BOs in the child
> > > process that prevented freeing the memory in the parent for which we had
> > > worked around earlier in the user space inside the thunk library.
> > > 
> > > Additionally, we faced this issue when using CRIU to checkpoint restore
> > > an application that had such inherited mappings in the child which
> > > confuse CRIU when it mmaps on restore. Having this flag set for the
> > > render node VMAs helps. VMAs mapped via KFD already take care of this so
> > > this is needed only for the render nodes.
> > > 
> > > To limit the impact of the change to user space consumers such as OpenGL
> > > etc, limit it to KFD BOs only.
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@xxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: David Yat Sin <david.yatsin@xxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Rajneesh Bhardwaj <rajneesh.bhardwaj@xxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Please drop this patch from all stable versions since it was reverted from
> > upstream later on.
> 
> The revert comes later in the patch series, so all should be ok :)

Looks like Sasha dropped this, so I'll go drop the revert as well.

thanks,

greg k-h