linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v4 06/10] VFIO_PLATFORM: Read and write support for the device fd

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Message-ID: <1395773793.632.152.camel@ul30vt.home>
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:56:33 -0600
From:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Auger <eric.auger@...aro.org>
Cc:	a.motakis@...tualopensystems.com, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, tech@...tualopensystems.com,
	a.rigo@...tualopensystems.com, B08248@...escale.com,
	kim.phillips@...aro.org, jan.kiszka@...mens.com,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, R65777@...escale.com, B07421@...escale.com,
	christoffer.dall@...aro.org, agraf@...e.de, B16395@...escale.com,
	will.deacon@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 06/10] VFIO_PLATFORM: Read and write support for
 the device fd

On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 17:43 +0100, Eric Auger wrote:
> > Date: Sat,  8 Feb 2014 18:29:36 +0100
> > VFIO returns a file descriptor which we can use to manipulate the memory
> > regions of the device. Since some memory regions we cannot mmap due to
> > security concerns, we also allow to read and write to this file descriptor
> > directly.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@...tualopensystems.com>
> > Tested-by: Alvise Rigo <a.rigo@...tualopensystems.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform.c | 128 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 125 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform.c b/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform.c
> > index f7db5c0..ee96078 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform.c
> > @@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ static int vfio_platform_regions_init(struct vfio_platform_device *vdev)
> >  
> >  		region.addr = res->start;
> >  		region.size = resource_size(res);
> > -		region.flags = 0;
> > +		region.flags = VFIO_REGION_INFO_FLAG_READ
> > +				| VFIO_REGION_INFO_FLAG_WRITE;
> >  
> >  		vdev->region[i] = region;
> >  	}
> > @@ -150,13 +151,134 @@ static long vfio_platform_ioctl(void *device_data,
> >  static ssize_t vfio_platform_read(void *device_data, char __user *buf,
> >  			     size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
> >  {
> > -	return 0;
> > +	struct vfio_platform_device *vdev = device_data;
> > +	unsigned int *io;
> > +	int i;
> > +
> > +	for (i = 0; i < vdev->num_regions; i++) {
> > +		struct vfio_platform_region region = vdev->region[i];
> > +		unsigned int done = 0;
> > +		loff_t off;
> > +
> > +		if ((*ppos < region.addr)
> > +		     || (*ppos + count - 1) >= (region.addr + region.size))
> > +			continue;
> > +
> > +		io = ioremap_nocache(region.addr, region.size);
> > +
> > +		off = *ppos - region.addr;
> > +
> > +		while (count) {
> > +			size_t filled;
> > +
> > +			if (count >= 4 && !(off % 4)) {
> > +				u32 val;
> > +
> > +				val = ioread32(io + off);
> 
> Hi Antonios,
> 
> I suspect there is an issue with the read address. Indeed io being an
> unsigned int* the read address is io + off x sizeof (unsigned int) ie.
> io+ offx4  whereas we expect to read io + off. declaring io as a void*
> corrects the issue (or void __iomem *io). Same issue on write.

Yep, the same code for vfio/pci uses void __iomem *io.  Thanks,

Alex

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