[PATCH] drm/amd/display: Clear dm_state for fast updates
Kazlauskas, Nicholas
nicholas.kazlauskas at amd.com
Wed Jul 29 16:49:10 UTC 2020
On 2020-07-28 5:08 a.m., daniel at ffwll.ch wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:49:48PM -0400, Kazlauskas, Nicholas wrote:
>> On 2020-07-27 5:32 p.m., Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:11 PM Mazin Rezk <mnrzk at protonmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, July 27, 2020 4:29 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 9:28 PM Christian König
>>>>> <christian.koenig at amd.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 27.07.20 um 16:05 schrieb Kazlauskas, Nicholas:
>>>>>>> On 2020-07-27 9:39 a.m., Christian König wrote:
>>>>>>>> Am 27.07.20 um 07:40 schrieb Mazin Rezk:
>>>>>>>>> This patch fixes a race condition that causes a use-after-free during
>>>>>>>>> amdgpu_dm_atomic_commit_tail. This can occur when 2 non-blocking
>>>>>>>>> commits
>>>>>>>>> are requested and the second one finishes before the first.
>>>>>>>>> Essentially,
>>>>>>>>> this bug occurs when the following sequence of events happens:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 1. Non-blocking commit #1 is requested w/ a new dm_state #1 and is
>>>>>>>>> deferred to the workqueue.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 2. Non-blocking commit #2 is requested w/ a new dm_state #2 and is
>>>>>>>>> deferred to the workqueue.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 3. Commit #2 starts before commit #1, dm_state #1 is used in the
>>>>>>>>> commit_tail and commit #2 completes, freeing dm_state #1.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 4. Commit #1 starts after commit #2 completes, uses the freed dm_state
>>>>>>>>> 1 and dereferences a freelist pointer while setting the context.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Well I only have a one mile high view on this, but why don't you let
>>>>>>>> the work items execute in order?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That would be better anyway cause this way we don't trigger a cache
>>>>>>>> line ping pong between CPUs.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Christian.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We use the DRM helpers for managing drm_atomic_commit_state and those
>>>>>>> helpers internally push non-blocking commit work into the system
>>>>>>> unbound work queue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mhm, well if you send those helper atomic commits in the order A,B and
>>>>>> they execute it in the order B,A I would call that a bug :)
>>>>>
>>>>> The way it works is it pushes all commits into unbound work queue, but
>>>>> then forces serialization as needed. We do _not_ want e.g. updates on
>>>>> different CRTC to be serialized, that would result in lots of judder.
>>>>> And hw is funny enough that there's all kinds of dependencies.
>>>>>
>>>>> The way you force synchronization is by adding other CRTC state
>>>>> objects. So if DC is busted and can only handle a single update per
>>>>> work item, then I guess you always need all CRTC states and everything
>>>>> will be run in order. But that also totally kills modern multi-screen
>>>>> compositors. Xorg isn't modern, just in case that's not clear :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Lucking at the code it seems like you indeed have only a single dm
>>>>> state, so yeah global sync is what you'll need as immediate fix, and
>>>>> then maybe fix up DM to not be quite so silly ... or at least only do
>>>>> the dm state stuff when really needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> We could also sprinkle the drm_crtc_commit structure around a bit
>>>>> (it's the glue that provides the synchronization across commits), but
>>>>> since your dm state is global just grabbing all crtc states
>>>>> unconditionally as part of that is probably best.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> While we could duplicate a copy of that code with nothing but the
>>>>>>> workqueue changed that isn't something I'd really like to maintain
>>>>>>> going forward.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not talking about duplicating the code, I'm talking about fixing the
>>>>>> helpers. I don't know that code well, but from the outside it sounds
>>>>>> like a bug there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And executing work items in the order they are submitted is trivial.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Had anybody pinged Daniel or other people familiar with the helper code
>>>>>> about it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah something is wrong here, and the fix looks horrible :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Aside, I've also seen some recent discussion flare up about
>>>>> drm_atomic_state_get/put used to paper over some other use-after-free,
>>>>> but this time related to interrupt handlers. Maybe a few rules about
>>>>> that:
>>>>> - dont
>>>>> - especially not when it's interrupt handlers, because you can't call
>>>>> drm_atomic_state_put from interrupt handlers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Instead have an spin_lock_irq to protect the shared date with your
>>>>> interrupt handler, and _copy_ the date over. This is e.g. what
>>>>> drm_crtc_arm_vblank_event does.
>>>>
>>>> Nicholas wrote a patch that attempted to resolve the issue by adding every
>>>> CRTC into the commit to use use the stall checks. [1] While this forces
>>>> synchronisation on commits, it's kind of a hacky method that may take a
>>>> toll on performance.
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to have a DRM helper that forces synchronisation on some
>>>> commits without having to add every CRTC into the commit?
>>>>
>>>> Also, is synchronisation really necessary for fast updates in amdgpu?
>>>> I'll admit, the idea of eliminating the use-after-free bug by eliminating
>>>> the use entirely doesn't seem ideal; but is forcing synchronisation on
>>>> these updates that much better?
>>>
>>> Well clearing the dc_state pointer here and then allocating another
>>> one in atomic_commit_tail also looks fishy. The proper fix is probably
>>> a lot more involved, but yeah interim fix is to grab all crtc states
>>> iff you also grabbed the dm_atomic_state structure. Real fix is to
>>> only do this when necessary, which pretty much means the dc_state
>>> needs to be somehow split up, or there needs to be some guarantees
>>> about when it's necessary and when not. Otherwise parallel commits on
>>> different CRTC are not possible with the current dc backend code.
>>
>> Thanks for spending some time to help take a look at this as well.
>>
>> The DRM documentation (at least at the time) seemed to imply that
>> subclassing DRM private state was for legacy usage only and DRM wanted to
>> move away from it. DRM private objects seemed to fit as the nicer atomic
>> method for handling this since they have old/new, but as you can guess from
>> this issue it's a mess (from our end).
>
> Yeah, if it's actual state you put in there. But this dc_state structure
> is more like a container of state pointers, like drm_atomic_state. It's
> not 100% clear-cut, e.g. the bw stuff is more like a real state object I
> guess, or maybe it's just temporary storage for computation results?
>
>> The first step to fixing this is going back to subclassing DRM state.
>>
>> It's actually the right tool for the job for allocating temporary state
>> outside of the core DRM objects, and we need this to form the DC state
>> object and necessary stream update bundles which might be too big to fit on
>> the stack for commit check/commit tail. We'll be a lot closer to fixing the
>> lockdep issues this way once we get around to getting rid of allocations in
>> the DC commit paths.
>
> So on the stream bundles ... where do these pointers point to? Are the
> streams themselves in the crtc/plane states?
>
>> The second step is to fix validation itself. The old state requirement for
>> checking stream/plane updates was actually an entirely pointless endeavor
>> since dc global validation doesn't every look at updates, just the final
>> state for a set streams/planes - it's stateless.
>
> Uh, is your hw that good, i.e. there's no impossible state transitions? Or
> do you simply force a modeset in such cases? In which case, are the
> modeset flags correctly updated so that userspace can control this with
> ALLOW_MODESET?
>
>> We wanted to rely on DC to internally notify DM when DRM changes would do
>> this, but DM actually requires this logic as well to know when to use a fast
>> path vs a full programming path to recreate planes/streams based on the new
>> DRM state to pass into validation.
>>
>> State updates will change to be formed from a delta of the old/new plane
>> state, but the new one can be discarded if not needed.
>>
>> Any update that requires clock/bandwidth changes will have to add all the
>> CRTCs and stall for any fast updates to complete first. This is because they
>> could potentially reshuffle around the pipes as well, but these updates
>> happen infrequently enough that the stall isn't too bad here.
>>
>> DC state unfortunately still does need to exist due to requirements on
>> hardware resources/pipe splitting that don't fit nicely into the DRM
>> infrastructure. It's really hard to shift everything over into the DRM
>> infrastructure as well because of the DKMS problem we chatted about briefly
>> last year at XDC.
>
> Uh this is awkward, holding up upstream because of downstream kernels ...
>
> Can't you fix this with a lot more glue in the downstream kernels, stuff
> like copying the entire atomic helpers into your driver when there's new
> stuff?
>
> For the multi-pipe stuff, how other drivers handle this is by internally
> remapping userspace visible crtc/plane objects to underlying hw objects.
> And then if you have remapping going on you add the userspace state
> structs for all underlying remmapped crtc/plane in use by the current
> update. That should be enough to force just enough synchronization.
>
> Then in your hw commit functions you simple iterate over all the states in
> your update, as if you'd iterate over streams directly. So example:
>
> struct amdgpu_crtc_state {
> struct drm_crtc_state base;
> struct dm_stream_mapping_state mapping;
> /* this crtc might not be using this stream! */
> struct dm_stream_state stream;
> };
>
> I think msm works like this, but there's also other drivers.
>
> When you have to change the mapping then you grab the global mapping
> private state, but in any other cases you use the read-only copy in the
> crtc state. And the global state is only for book-keeping, so no sync
> needed (aside from the sync provided by adding the crtc states for each
> stream you touch).
>
> Ofc might have gotten the stream lingo wrong, but this is roughly how to
> do this in atomic.
>
>> I'd really like to tackle a third step as well at some point, and that's
>> cleaning up our IRQ management. Our interrupt handlers unfortunately access
>> DRM state directly (since it's so easy to do) and thus introduce a
>> requirement that it doesn't get changed while these are still enabled. This
>> requires us to introduce our own stall checks in atomic_check and perform
>> the interrupt disable in commit before the state swap.
>
> Yeah don't do that :-) It might work if you guarantee that the atomic
> commit_tail is waiting for all your irq handlers to complete, plus use rcu
> dereferencing on these pointers.
>
> Copying the relevant bits over should be much nicer imo, also passing
> explicit pointers at least. I.e. if you don't want to copy, have a
> dedicated pointer protected by irqsave spin_lock that you share with the
> interrupt handler. Stopping interrupt handlers before swap_state isn't
> really how this should work.
>
>> The fix for this one isn't too bad, but it's tedious - copying all the state
>> we need to the interrupt handlers before enabling them and letting them
>> continue to work off of that state. This way we can remove the stall from
>> atomic_check and actually disable/enable interrupts from commit_tail like we
>> should be doing.
>
> Yup. I think you can have some pointers to specific state, _iff_ you make
> sure the commit_tail waits for all the interrupt handlers to complete
> somewhere (depending upon how this all works). But copying is probably
> simpler to understand - interrupt races are tricky.
>>
>>>
>>> See also my dma-fence annotation fixup patch, there dc_state also gets
>>> in the way:
>>>
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20200707201229.472834-21-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch/
>>>
>>> Nicholas, btw I'm still waiting for some dc feedback on that entire
>>> series, and what/if there's plans to fix these issues properly.
>>>
>>> Maybe even going back to the subclassed drm_atomic_state might be
>>> better than what we currently have.
>>> -Daniel
>>
>> I've taken a look at that series but forgot to ACK. While this isn't the
>> same thread for it, you can have my:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Kazlauskas <nicholas.kazlauskas at amd.com>
>>
>> ...on the DC/DM bits. Everything you've identified there is correct and it's
>> something I'd really like to get around to taking a look at by the end of
>> the year, hopefully.
>>
>> State allocations will be solved by the DM state allocation rework and the
>> tiling flags thing needs to be solved by storing those in atomic_check
>> instead on the plane.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nicholas Kazlauskas
>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207383#c96
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Mazin Rezk
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers, Daniel
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Christian.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Nicholas Kazlauskas
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Since this bug has only been spotted with fast commits, this patch
>>>>>>>>> fixes
>>>>>>>>> the bug by clearing the dm_state instead of using the old dc_state for
>>>>>>>>> fast updates. In addition, since dm_state is only used for its dc_state
>>>>>>>>> and amdgpu_dm_atomic_commit_tail will retain the dc_state if none is
>>>>>>>>> found,
>>>>>>>>> removing the dm_state should not have any consequences in fast updates.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This use-after-free bug has existed for a while now, but only caused a
>>>>>>>>> noticeable issue starting from 5.7-rc1 due to 3202fa62f ("slub:
>>>>>>>>> relocate
>>>>>>>>> freelist pointer to middle of object") moving the freelist pointer from
>>>>>>>>> dm_state->base (which was unused) to dm_state->context (which is
>>>>>>>>> dereferenced).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207383
>>>>>>>>> Fixes: bd200d190f45 ("drm/amd/display: Don't replace the dc_state
>>>>>>>>> for fast updates")
>>>>>>>>> Reported-by: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net>
>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Mazin Rezk <mnrzk at protonmail.com>
I think this patch is OK to merge for now based on the discussion in
this thread and the other one. It's better than hitting a page fault at
the very least and it's not a very intrusive change.
I'd say I'm about halfway through development on a proper fix for this
pending no IGT failures at least.
So for now,
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Kazlauskas <nicholas.kazlauskas at amd.com>
>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>> .../gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 36
>>>>>>>>> ++++++++++++++-----
>>>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
>>>>>>>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
>>>>>>>>> index 86ffa0c2880f..710edc70e37e 100644
>>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
>>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
>>>>>>>>> @@ -8717,20 +8717,38 @@ static int amdgpu_dm_atomic_check(struct
>>>>>>>>> drm_device *dev,
>>>>>>>>> * the same resource. If we have a new DC context as part of
>>>>>>>>> * the DM atomic state from validation we need to free it and
>>>>>>>>> * retain the existing one instead.
>>>>>>>>> + *
>>>>>>>>> + * Furthermore, since the DM atomic state only contains the DC
>>>>>>>>> + * context and can safely be annulled, we can free the state
>>>>>>>>> + * and clear the associated private object now to free
>>>>>>>>> + * some memory and avoid a possible use-after-free later.
>>>>>>>>> */
>>>>>>>>> - struct dm_atomic_state *new_dm_state, *old_dm_state;
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - new_dm_state = dm_atomic_get_new_state(state);
>>>>>>>>> - old_dm_state = dm_atomic_get_old_state(state);
>>>>>>>>> + for (i = 0; i < state->num_private_objs; i++) {
>>>>>>>>> + struct drm_private_obj *obj = state->private_objs[i].ptr;
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - if (new_dm_state && old_dm_state) {
>>>>>>>>> - if (new_dm_state->context)
>>>>>>>>> - dc_release_state(new_dm_state->context);
>>>>>>>>> + if (obj->funcs == adev->dm.atomic_obj.funcs) {
>>>>>>>>> + int j = state->num_private_objs-1;
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - new_dm_state->context = old_dm_state->context;
>>>>>>>>> + dm_atomic_destroy_state(obj,
>>>>>>>>> + state->private_objs[i].state);
>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>> + /* If i is not at the end of the array then the
>>>>>>>>> + * last element needs to be moved to where i was
>>>>>>>>> + * before the array can safely be truncated.
>>>>>>>>> + */
>>>>>>>>> + if (i != j)
>>>>>>>>> + state->private_objs[i] =
>>>>>>>>> + state->private_objs[j];
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - if (old_dm_state->context)
>>>>>>>>> - dc_retain_state(old_dm_state->context);
>>>>>>>>> + state->private_objs[j].ptr = NULL;
>>>>>>>>> + state->private_objs[j].state = NULL;
>>>>>>>>> + state->private_objs[j].old_state = NULL;
>>>>>>>>> + state->private_objs[j].new_state = NULL;
>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>> + state->num_private_objs = j;
>>>>>>>>> + break;
>>>>>>>>> + }
>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> 2.27.0
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Daniel Vetter
>>>>> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
>>>>> http://blog.ffwll.ch/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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