Re: [PATCH v2 06/11] iommufd: IOMMU_HWPT_ALLOC allocation with user data

[Nicolin Chen]

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 09:41:00AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
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> > From: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 10:39 PM
> > +     if (cmd->hwpt_type != IOMMU_HWPT_TYPE_DEFAULT) {
> > +             if (!ops->domain_alloc_user_data_len) {
> > +                     rc = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > +                     goto out_put_idev;
> > +             }
> > +             klen = ops->domain_alloc_user_data_len(cmd->hwpt_type);
> > +             if (WARN_ON(klen < 0)) {
> > +                     rc = -EINVAL;
> > +                     goto out_put_pt;
> > +             }
> > +     }
> 
> What about passing the user pointer to the iommu driver which
> then does the copy so we don't need an extra @data_len()
> callback for every driver?

It's doable by letting the driver do copy_from_user(), yet I
recall that Jason suggested to keep it in the iommufd. Also,
we are reusing the ucmd_buffer for the user_data. And the klen
isn't really being used for its value here. So, it is likely
enough to have an ops->hwpt_type_is_supported.

> >
> > +     switch (pt_obj->type) {
> > +     case IOMMUFD_OBJ_IOAS:
> > +             ioas = container_of(pt_obj, struct iommufd_ioas, obj);
> > +             break;
> 
> this should fail if parent is specified.

I don't think that's necessaray: the parent is NULL by default
and only specified (if IOMMUFD_OBJ_HW_PAGETABLE) by the exact
pt_id/pt_obj here.

> > +     case IOMMUFD_OBJ_HW_PAGETABLE:
> > +             /* pt_id points HWPT only when hwpt_type
> > is !IOMMU_HWPT_TYPE_DEFAULT */
> > +             if (cmd->hwpt_type == IOMMU_HWPT_TYPE_DEFAULT) {
> > +                     rc = -EINVAL;
> > +                     goto out_put_pt;
> > +             }
> > +
> > +             parent = container_of(pt_obj, struct iommufd_hw_pagetable,
> > obj);
> > +             /*
> > +              * Cannot allocate user-managed hwpt linking to
> > auto_created
> > +              * hwpt. If the parent hwpt is already a user-managed hwpt,
> > +              * don't allocate another user-managed hwpt linking to it.
> > +              */
> > +             if (parent->auto_domain || parent->parent) {
> > +                     rc = -EINVAL;
> > +                     goto out_put_pt;
> > +             }
> > +             ioas = parent->ioas;
> 
> for nesting why is ioas required? In concept we can just pass NULL ioas
> to iommufd_hw_pagetable_alloc() for this hwpt. If within that function
> there is a need to toggle ioas for the parent it can always retrieve it
> from the parent hwpt.

Jason suggested this for simplicity. As I replied in another
email, a user hwpt still needs ioas's refcount and mutex, so
it would otherwise have a duplicated code in the beginning of
most of hwpt_ functions:
	if (hwpt->parent)
		ioas = hwpt->parent->ioas;
	else (hwpt->ioas)
		ioas = hwpt->ioas;
	else
		WARN_ON(1);

Thanks
Nic