linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 09/22] vfio iommu type1: Add task structure to vfio

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Message-ID: <20161108094338.7eccc64f@t450s.home>
Date:   Tue, 8 Nov 2016 09:43:38 -0700
From:   Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To:     Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@...dia.com>
Cc:     <pbonzini@...hat.com>, <kraxel@...hat.com>, <cjia@...dia.com>,
        <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        <kevin.tian@...el.com>, <jike.song@...el.com>,
        <bjsdjshi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 09/22] vfio iommu type1: Add task structure to
 vfio_dma

On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 19:43:25 +0530
Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@...dia.com> wrote:

> On 11/8/2016 2:33 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 02:40:43 +0530
> > Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@...dia.com> wrote:
> >   
> 
> ...
> 
> >>  static int vfio_dma_do_map(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
> >>  			   struct vfio_iommu_type1_dma_map *map)
> >>  {
> >>  	dma_addr_t iova = map->iova;
> >>  	unsigned long vaddr = map->vaddr;
> >>  	size_t size = map->size;
> >> -	long npage;
> >>  	int ret = 0, prot = 0;
> >>  	uint64_t mask;
> >>  	struct vfio_dma *dma;
> >> -	unsigned long pfn;
> >> +	struct vfio_addr_space *addr_space;
> >> +	struct mm_struct *mm;
> >> +	bool free_addr_space_on_err = false;
> >>  
> >>  	/* Verify that none of our __u64 fields overflow */
> >>  	if (map->size != size || map->vaddr != vaddr || map->iova != iova)
> >> @@ -608,47 +685,56 @@ static int vfio_dma_do_map(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
> >>  	mutex_lock(&iommu->lock);
> >>  
> >>  	if (vfio_find_dma(iommu, iova, size)) {
> >> -		mutex_unlock(&iommu->lock);
> >> -		return -EEXIST;
> >> +		ret = -EEXIST;
> >> +		goto do_map_err;
> >> +	}
> >> +
> >> +	mm = get_task_mm(current);
> >> +	if (!mm) {
> >> +		ret = -ENODEV;  
> > 
> > -EFAULT?
> >  
> 
> -ENODEV return is in original code from vfio_pin_pages()
>         if (!current->mm)
>                 return -ENODEV;
> 
> Once I thought of changing it to -EFAULT, but then again changed to
> -ENODEV to be consistent with original error code.
> 
> Should I still change this return to -EFAULT?

Let's keep ENODEV for less code churn, I guess.
 
> >> +		goto do_map_err;
> >> +	}
> >> +
> >> +	addr_space = vfio_find_addr_space(iommu, mm);
> >> +	if (addr_space) {
> >> +		atomic_inc(&addr_space->ref_count);
> >> +		mmput(mm);
> >> +	} else {
> >> +		addr_space = kzalloc(sizeof(*addr_space), GFP_KERNEL);
> >> +		if (!addr_space) {
> >> +			ret = -ENOMEM;
> >> +			goto do_map_err;
> >> +		}
> >> +		addr_space->mm = mm;
> >> +		atomic_set(&addr_space->ref_count, 1);
> >> +		list_add(&addr_space->next, &iommu->addr_space_list);
> >> +		free_addr_space_on_err = true;
> >>  	}
> >>  
> >>  	dma = kzalloc(sizeof(*dma), GFP_KERNEL);
> >>  	if (!dma) {
> >> -		mutex_unlock(&iommu->lock);
> >> -		return -ENOMEM;
> >> +		if (free_addr_space_on_err) {
> >> +			mmput(mm);
> >> +			list_del(&addr_space->next);
> >> +			kfree(addr_space);
> >> +		}
> >> +		ret = -ENOMEM;
> >> +		goto do_map_err;
> >>  	}
> >>  
> >>  	dma->iova = iova;
> >>  	dma->vaddr = vaddr;
> >>  	dma->prot = prot;
> >> +	dma->addr_space = addr_space;
> >> +	get_task_struct(current);
> >> +	dma->task = current;
> >> +	dma->mlock_cap = capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK);  
> > 
> > 
> > How do you reason we can cache this?  Does the fact that the process
> > had this capability at the time that it did a DMA_MAP imply that it
> > necessarily still has this capability when an external user (vendor
> > driver) tries to pin pages?  I don't see how we can make that
> > assumption.
> > 
> >   
> 
> Will process change MEMLOCK limit at runtime? I think it shouldn't,
> correct me if I'm wrong. QEMU doesn't do that, right?

What QEMU does or doesn't do isn't relevant, the question is could a
process change CAP_IPC_LOCK runtime.  It seems plausible to me.

> The function capable() determines current task's capability. But when
> vfio_pin_pages() is called, it could come from other task but pages are
> pinned from address space of task who mapped it. So we can't use
> capable() in vfio_pin_pages()
> 
> If this capability shouldn't be cached, we have to use has_capability()
> with dma->task as argument in vfio_pin_pages()
> 
>  bool has_capability(struct task_struct *t, int cap)

Yep, that sounds better.  Thanks,

Alex