linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/19] mm: New follow

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Message-ID: <Zrz2b82-Z31h4Suy@x1n>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:24:47 -0400
From: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/19] mm: New follow_pfnmap API

On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 10:19:54AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 12:08:59PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> 
> > +/**
> > + * follow_pfnmap_start() - Look up a pfn mapping at a user virtual address
> > + * @args: Pointer to struct @follow_pfnmap_args
> > + *
> > + * The caller needs to setup args->vma and args->address to point to the
> > + * virtual address as the target of such lookup.  On a successful return,
> > + * the results will be put into other output fields.
> > + *
> > + * After the caller finished using the fields, the caller must invoke
> > + * another follow_pfnmap_end() to proper releases the locks and resources
> > + * of such look up request.
> > + *
> > + * During the start() and end() calls, the results in @args will be valid
> > + * as proper locks will be held.  After the end() is called, all the fields
> > + * in @follow_pfnmap_args will be invalid to be further accessed.
> > + *
> > + * If the PTE maps a refcounted page, callers are responsible to protect
> > + * against invalidation with MMU notifiers; otherwise access to the PFN at
> > + * a later point in time can trigger use-after-free.
> > + *
> > + * Only IO mappings and raw PFN mappings are allowed.  
> 
> What does this mean? The paragraph before said this can return a
> refcounted page?

This came from the old follow_pte(), I kept that as I suppose we should
allow VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP just like before, even if in this case I suppose
only the pfnmap matters where huge mappings can start to appear.

> 
> > + * The mmap semaphore
> > + * should be taken for read, and the mmap semaphore cannot be released
> > + * before the end() is invoked.
> 
> This function is not safe for IO mappings and PFNs either, VFIO has a
> known security issue to call it. That should be emphasised in the
> comment.

Any elaboration on this?  I could have missed that..

> 
> The caller must be protected by mmu notifiers or other locking that
> guarentees the PTE cannot be removed while the caller is using it. In
> all cases. 
> 
> Since this hold the PTL until end is it always safe to use the
> returned address before calling end?

I suppose so?  As the pgtable is stable, I thought it means it's safe, but
I'm not sure now when you mentioned there's a VFIO known issue, so I could
have overlooked something.  There's no address returned, but pfn, pgprot,
write, etc.

The user needs to do proper mapping if they need an usable address,
e.g. generic_access_phys() does ioremap_prot() and recheck the pfn didn't
change.

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu