linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 4/4] IB/core: disable memory registration of fileystem-dax vmas

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Message-ID: <151068941011.7446.7766030590347262502.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:56:50 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] IB/core: disable memory registration of
 fileystem-dax vmas

Until there is a solution to the dma-to-dax vs truncate problem it is
not safe to allow RDMA to create long standing memory registrations
against filesytem-dax vmas.

Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
Cc: <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Fixes: 3565fce3a659 ("mm, x86: get_user_pages() for dax mappings")
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
index 21e60b1e2ff4..130606c3b07c 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ struct ib_umem *ib_umem_get(struct ib_ucontext *context, unsigned long addr,
 	sg_list_start = umem->sg_head.sgl;
 
 	while (npages) {
-		ret = get_user_pages(cur_base,
+		ret = get_user_pages_longterm(cur_base,
 				     min_t(unsigned long, npages,
 					   PAGE_SIZE / sizeof (struct page *)),
 				     gup_flags, page_list, vma_list);