linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] vfio: disable filesystem-dax page pinning

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Message-ID: <151778553083.7139.6601964812589807125.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:   Sun, 04 Feb 2018 15:05:30 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     alex.williamson@...hat.com
Cc:     Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@...el.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, jack@...e.cz,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, hch@....de
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] vfio: disable filesystem-dax page pinning

Filesystem-DAX is incompatible with 'longterm' page pinning. Without
page cache indirection a DAX mapping maps filesystem blocks directly.
This means that the filesystem must not modify a file's block map while
any page in a mapping is pinned. In order to prevent the situation of
userspace holding of filesystem operations indefinitely, disallow
'longterm' Filesystem-DAX mappings.

RDMA has the same conflict and the plan there is to add a 'with lease'
mechanism to allow the kernel to notify userspace that the mapping is
being torn down for block-map maintenance. Perhaps something similar can
be put in place for vfio.

Note that xfs and ext4 still report:

   "DAX enabled. Warning: EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk"

...at mount time, and resolving the dax-dma-vs-truncate problem is one
of the last hurdles to remove that designation.

Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@...el.com>
Fixes: d475c6346a38 ("dax,ext2: replace XIP read and write with DAX I/O")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
---
 drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c |   18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
index e30e29ae4819..45657e2b1ff7 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
@@ -338,11 +338,12 @@ static int vaddr_get_pfn(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr,
 {
 	struct page *page[1];
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+	struct vm_area_struct *vmas[1];
 	int ret;
 
 	if (mm == current->mm) {
-		ret = get_user_pages_fast(vaddr, 1, !!(prot & IOMMU_WRITE),
-					  page);
+		ret = get_user_pages_longterm(vaddr, 1, !!(prot & IOMMU_WRITE),
+					      page, vmas);
 	} else {
 		unsigned int flags = 0;
 
@@ -351,7 +352,18 @@ static int vaddr_get_pfn(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr,
 
 		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		ret = get_user_pages_remote(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, flags, page,
-					    NULL, NULL);
+					    vmas, NULL);
+		/*
+		 * The lifetime of a vaddr_get_pfn() page pin is
+		 * userspace-controlled. In the fs-dax case this could
+		 * lead to indefinite stalls in filesystem operations.
+		 * Disallow attempts to pin fs-dax pages via this
+		 * interface.
+		 */
+		if (ret > 0 && vma_is_fsdax(vmas[0])) {
+			ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+			put_page(page[0]);
+		}
 		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	}