[PATCH] dma-buf: Require VM_PFNMAP vma for mmap

Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann at suse.de
Wed Nov 23 08:07:12 UTC 2022


Hi

Am 22.11.22 um 18:08 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> tldr; DMA buffers aren't normal memory, expecting that you can use
> them like that (like calling get_user_pages works, or that they're
> accounting like any other normal memory) cannot be guaranteed.
> 
> Since some userspace only runs on integrated devices, where all
> buffers are actually all resident system memory, there's a huge
> temptation to assume that a struct page is always present and useable
> like for any more pagecache backed mmap. This has the potential to
> result in a uapi nightmare.
> 
> To stop this gap require that DMA buffer mmaps are VM_PFNMAP, which
> blocks get_user_pages and all the other struct page based
> infrastructure for everyone. In spirit this is the uapi counterpart to
> the kernel-internal CONFIG_DMABUF_DEBUG.
> 
> Motivated by a recent patch which wanted to swich the system dma-buf
> heap to vm_insert_page instead of vm_insert_pfn.
> 
> v2:
> 
> Jason brought up that we also want to guarantee that all ptes have the
> pte_special flag set, to catch fast get_user_pages (on architectures
> that support this). Allowing VM_MIXEDMAP (like VM_SPECIAL does) would
> still allow vm_insert_page, but limiting to VM_PFNMAP will catch that.
> 
>  From auditing the various functions to insert pfn pte entires
> (vm_insert_pfn_prot, remap_pfn_range and all it's callers like
> dma_mmap_wc) it looks like VM_PFNMAP is already required anyway, so
> this should be the correct flag to check for.
> 
> v3: Change to WARN_ON_ONCE (Thomas Zimmermann)
> 
> References: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKMK7uHi+mG0z0HUmNt13QCCvutuRVjpcR0NjRL12k-WbWzkRg@mail.gmail.com/
> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca>
> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal at linaro.org>
> Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> Cc: linux-media at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linaro-mm-sig at lists.linaro.org
> --
> Ok I entirely forgot about this patch but stumbled over it and checked
> what's up with it no. I think it's ready now for merging:
> - shmem helper patches to fix up vgem landed
> - ttm has been fixed since a while
> - I don't think we've had any other open issues
> 
> Time to lock down this uapi contract for real?
> -Daniel
> ---
>   drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
> index b6c36914e7c6..88718665c3c3 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
> @@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ static int dma_buf_mmap_internal(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>   	ret = dmabuf->ops->mmap(dmabuf, vma);
>   	dma_resv_unlock(dmabuf->resv);
>   
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP));

Well , I already a-b'ed this, but does it work with DMa helpers. I'm 
asking because of [1].

Best regards
Thomas

[1] 
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.1-rc6/source/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.c#L533

> +
>   	return ret;
>   }
>   
> @@ -1495,6 +1497,8 @@ int dma_buf_mmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>   	ret = dmabuf->ops->mmap(dmabuf, vma);
>   	dma_resv_unlock(dmabuf->resv);
>   
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP));
> +
>   	return ret;
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(dma_buf_mmap, DMA_BUF);

-- 
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
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