Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] vfio: handle DMA map/unmap up to the addressable limit

[Alex Mastro]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 10:39:04AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 11:11:49AM -0700, Alex Mastro wrote:
> > Alex and Jason, during my testing, I found that the behavior of range-based
> > (!VFIO_DMA_UNMAP_FLAG_ALL) VFIO_IOMMU_UNMAP_DMA differs slightly when using
> > /dev/iommu as the container.
> > 
> > iommufd treats range-based unmap where there are no hits in the range as an
> > error, and the ioctl fails with ENOENT.
> 
> > vfio_iommu_type1.c treats this as a success and reports zero bytes unmapped in
> > vfio_iommu_type1_dma_unmap.size.
> 
> Oh, weird...
> 
> What do you think about this:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.c b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.c
> index c0360c450880b8..1124f68ec9020d 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.c
> @@ -707,7 +707,8 @@ static int iopt_unmap_iova_range(struct io_pagetable *iopt, unsigned long start,
>  	struct iopt_area *area;
>  	unsigned long unmapped_bytes = 0;
>  	unsigned int tries = 0;
> -	int rc = -ENOENT;
> +	/* If there are no mapped entries then success */
> +	int rc = 0;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * The domains_rwsem must be held in read mode any time any area->pages
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/ioas.c b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/ioas.c
> index 1542c5fd10a85c..ef5e56672dea56 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/ioas.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/ioas.c
> @@ -367,6 +367,8 @@ int iommufd_ioas_unmap(struct iommufd_ucmd *ucmd)
>  				     &unmapped);
>  		if (rc)
>  			goto out_put;
> +		if (!unmapped)
> +			rc = -ENOENT;
>  	}
>  
>  	cmd->length = unmapped;

Seems reasonable to me. The only affected callers are 

drivers/iommu/iommufd/ioas.c
366:            rc = iopt_unmap_iova(&ioas->iopt, cmd->iova, cmd->length,

drivers/iommu/iommufd/vfio_compat.c
244:            rc = iopt_unmap_iova(&ioas->iopt, unmap.iova, unmap.size,

So your proposal should get vfio_compat.c into good shape.

I think these locations need more scrutiny after your change

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.c b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.c
index c0360c450880..e271696f726f 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.c
@@ -777,6 +777,7 @@ static int iopt_unmap_iova_range(struct io_pagetable *iopt, unsigned long start,
 
 		down_write(&iopt->iova_rwsem);
 	}
+	// redundant?
 	if (unmapped_bytes)
 		rc = 0;
 
@@ -818,6 +819,7 @@ int iopt_unmap_all(struct io_pagetable *iopt, unsigned long *unmapped)
 	int rc;
 
 	rc = iopt_unmap_iova_range(iopt, 0, ULONG_MAX, unmapped);
+	// intent still holds?
 	/* If the IOVAs are empty then unmap all succeeds */
 	if (rc == -ENOENT)
 		return 0;