[PATCH v4 11/14] drm/amdgpu: Guard against write accesses after device removal

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Tue Feb 9 09:46:48 UTC 2021


On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 09:27:03AM +0100, Christian König wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 08.02.21 um 23:09 schrieb Andrey Grodzovsky:
> > 
> > 
> > On 2/8/21 4:37 AM, Christian König wrote:
> > > Am 07.02.21 um 22:50 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> > > > [SNIP]
> > > > > Clarification - as far as I know there are no page fault
> > > > > handlers for kernel
> > > > > mappings. And we are talking about kernel mappings here,
> > > > > right ?  If there were
> > > > > I could solve all those issues the same as I do for user mappings, by
> > > > > invalidating all existing mappings in the kernel (both kmaps
> > > > > and ioreamps)and
> > > > > insert dummy zero or ~0 filled page instead.
> > > > > Also, I assume forcefully remapping the IO BAR to ~0 filled
> > > > > page would involve
> > > > > ioremap API and it's not something that I think can be
> > > > > easily done according to
> > > > > am answer i got to a related topic a few weeks ago
> > > > > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spinics.net%2Flists%2Flinux-pci%2Fmsg103396.html&data=04%7C01%7CAndrey.Grodzovsky%40amd.com%7Cb159d3ce264944486c8008d8cc15233a%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637483738446813868%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=6eP0nhS%2BZwp1Y54CwfX8vaV3FTWbW8IylW5JFaf92pY%3D&reserved=0
> > > > > (that was the only reply
> > > > > i got)
> > > > mmiotrace can, but only for debug, and only on x86 platforms:
> > > > 
> > > > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kernel.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml%2Flatest%2Ftrace%2Fmmiotrace.html&data=04%7C01%7CAndrey.Grodzovsky%40amd.com%7Cb159d3ce264944486c8008d8cc15233a%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637483738446813868%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=QBF9J%2BVIRUkUTTjvNoZR8NqFNt8CpHkcknH2qKX7dd8%3D&reserved=0
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Should be feasible (but maybe not worth the effort) to extend this to
> > > > support fake unplug.
> > > 
> > > Mhm, interesting idea you guys brought up here.
> > > 
> > > We don't need a page fault for this to work, all we need to do is to
> > > insert dummy PTEs into the kernels page table at the place where
> > > previously the MMIO mapping has been.
> > 
> > 
> > But that exactly what Mathew from linux-mm says is not a trivial thing
> > to do, quote:
> > 
> > "
> > 
> > ioremap() is done through the vmalloc space.  It would, in theory, be
> > possible to reprogram the page tables used for vmalloc to point to your
> > magic page.  I don't think we have such a mechanism today, and there are
> > lots of problems with things like TLB flushes.  It's probably going to
> > be harder than you think.
> > "
> 
> I haven't followed the full discussion, but I don't see much preventing
> this.
> 
> All you need is a new ioremap_dummy() function which takes the old start and
> length of the mapping.
> 
> Still a bit core and maybe even platform code, but rather useful I think.

Yeah we don't care about races, so if the tlb flushing isn't perfect
that's fine.

Also if we glue this into the mmiotrace infrastructure, that already has
all the fault handling. So on x86 I think we could even make it perfect
(but that feels like overkill) and fully atomic. Plus the mmiotrace
overhead (even if we don't capture anything) is probably a bit much even
for testing in CI or somewhere like that.
-Daniel

> 
> Christian.
> 
> > 
> > If you believe it's actually doable then it would be useful not only for simulating device
> > unplugged situation with all MMIOs returning 0xff... but for actual handling of driver accesses
> > to MMIO after device is gone and, we could then drop entirely this patch as there would be no need
> > to guard against such accesses post device unplug.
> 
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > > > > But ugh ...
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Otoh validating an entire driver like amdgpu without such a trick
> > > > > > against 0xff reads is practically impossible. So maybe
> > > > > > you need to add
> > > > > > this as one of the tasks here?
> > > > > Or I could just for validation purposes return ~0 from all
> > > > > reg reads in the code
> > > > > and ignore writes if drm_dev_unplugged, this could already
> > > > > easily validate a big
> > > > > portion of the code flow under such scenario.
> > > > Hm yeah if your really wrap them all, that should work too. Since
> > > > iommappings have __iomem pointer type, as long as amdgpu is sparse
> > > > warning free, should be doable to guarantee this.
> > > 
> > > Problem is that ~0 is not always a valid register value.
> > > 
> > > You would need to audit every register read that it doesn't use the
> > > returned value blindly as index or similar. That is quite a bit of
> > > work.
> > 
> > 
> > But ~0 is the value that will be returned for every read post device
> > unplug, regardless if it's valid or not, and we have to cope with
> > it then, no ?
> > 
> > Andrey
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Christian.
> > > 
> > > > -Daniel
> > > > 
> > > > > Andrey
> > > > > 
> > > 
> > 
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Daniel Vetter
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