[PATCH v4 08/23] vfio, mm: fix get_user_pages_remote() and FOLL_LONGTERM

[John Hubbard]

As it says in the updated comment in gup.c: current FOLL_LONGTERM
behavior is incompatible with FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY because of the
FS DAX check requirement on vmas.

However, the corresponding restriction in get_user_pages_remote() was
slightly stricter than is actually required: it forbade all
FOLL_LONGTERM callers, but we can actually allow FOLL_LONGTERM callers
that do not set the "locked" arg.

Update the code and comments accordingly, and update the VFIO caller
to take advantage of this, fixing a bug as a result: the VFIO caller
is logically a FOLL_LONGTERM user.

Also, remove an unnessary pair of calls that were releasing and
reacquiring the mmap_sem. There is no need to avoid holding mmap_sem
just in order to call page_to_pfn().

Also, move the DAX check ("if a VMA is DAX, don't allow long term
pinning") from the VFIO call site, all the way into the internals
of get_user_pages_remote() and __gup_longterm_locked(). That is:
get_user_pages_remote() calls __gup_longterm_locked(), which in turn
calls check_dax_vmas(). It's lightly explained in the comments as well.

Thanks to Jason Gunthorpe for pointing out a clean way to fix this,
and to Dan Williams for helping clarify the DAX refactoring.

Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse at redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 25 ++-----------------------
 mm/gup.c                        | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
index d864277ea16f..7301b710c9a4 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
@@ -340,7 +340,6 @@ 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];
 	unsigned int flags = 0;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -348,33 +347,13 @@ static int vaddr_get_pfn(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr,
 		flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
 
 	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	if (mm == current->mm) {
-		ret = get_user_pages(vaddr, 1, flags | FOLL_LONGTERM, page,
-				     vmas);
-	} else {
-		ret = get_user_pages_remote(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, flags, page,
-					    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);
-
+	ret = get_user_pages_remote(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, flags | FOLL_LONGTERM,
+				    page, NULL, NULL);
 	if (ret == 1) {
 		*pfn = page_to_pfn(page[0]);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-
 	vaddr = untagged_addr(vaddr);
 
 	vma = find_vma_intersection(mm, vaddr, vaddr + 1);
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 933524de6249..83702b2e86c8 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ struct follow_page_context {
 	unsigned int page_mask;
 };
 
+static __always_inline long __gup_longterm_locked(struct task_struct *tsk,
+						  struct mm_struct *mm,
+						  unsigned long start,
+						  unsigned long nr_pages,
+						  struct page **pages,
+						  struct vm_area_struct **vmas,
+						  unsigned int flags);
 /*
  * Return the compound head page with ref appropriately incremented,
  * or NULL if that failed.
@@ -1167,13 +1174,23 @@ long get_user_pages_remote(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
 		struct vm_area_struct **vmas, int *locked)
 {
 	/*
-	 * FIXME: Current FOLL_LONGTERM behavior is incompatible with
+	 * Parts of FOLL_LONGTERM behavior are incompatible with
 	 * FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY because of the FS DAX check requirement on
-	 * vmas.  As there are no users of this flag in this call we simply
-	 * disallow this option for now.
+	 * vmas. However, this only comes up if locked is set, and there are
+	 * callers that do request FOLL_LONGTERM, but do not set locked. So,
+	 * allow what we can.
 	 */
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gup_flags & FOLL_LONGTERM))
-		return -EINVAL;
+	if (gup_flags & FOLL_LONGTERM) {
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(locked))
+			return -EINVAL;
+		/*
+		 * This will check the vmas (even if our vmas arg is NULL)
+		 * and return -ENOTSUPP if DAX isn't allowed in this case:
+		 */
+		return __gup_longterm_locked(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages, pages,
+					     vmas, gup_flags | FOLL_TOUCH |
+					     FOLL_REMOTE);
+	}
 
 	return __get_user_pages_locked(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages, pages, vmas,
 				       locked,
-- 
2.24.0