[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] drm/i915: Fix userptr deadlock with MAP_FIXED
Michał Winiarski
michal.winiarski at intel.com
Mon Jun 29 08:57:13 PDT 2015
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 12:17:33PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Michał Winiarski found a really evil way to trigger a struct_mutex
> deadlock with userptr. He found that if he allocated a userptr bo and
> then GTT mmaped another bo, or even itself, at the same address as the
> userptr using MAP_FIXED, he could then cause a deadlock any time we then
> had to invalidate the GTT mmappings (so at will).
>
> To counter act the deadlock, we make the observation that when the
> MAP_FIXED is made we would have an invalidate_range event for our
> object. After that we should no longer alias with the rogue mmapping. If
> we are then able to mark the object as no longer in use after the first
> invalidate, we do not need to grab the struct_mutex for the subsequent
> invalidations.
>
> The patch makes one eye-catching change. That is the removal serial=0
> after detecting a to-be-freed object inside the invalidate walker. I
> felt setting serial=0 was a questionable pessimisation: it denies us the
> chance to reuse the current iterator for the next loop (before it is
> freed) and being explicit makes the reader question the validity of the
> locking (since the object-free race could occur elsewhere). The
> serialisation of the iterator is through the spinlock, if the object is
> freed before the next loop then the notifier.serial will be incremented
> and we start the walk from the beginning as we detect the invalid cache.
>
> v2: Grammar fixes
>
> Reported-by: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski at intel.com>
> Testcase: igt/gem_userptr_blits/map-fixed*
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski at intel.com>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
> index cb367d9f7909..e1965d8c08c8 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ struct i915_mmu_object {
> struct interval_tree_node it;
> struct list_head link;
> struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj;
> + bool active;
> bool is_linear;
> };
>
> @@ -114,7 +115,8 @@ restart:
>
> obj = mo->obj;
>
> - if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&obj->base.refcount))
> + if (!mo->active ||
> + !kref_get_unless_zero(&obj->base.refcount))
> continue;
>
> spin_unlock(&mn->lock);
> @@ -151,7 +153,8 @@ static void i915_gem_userptr_mn_invalidate_range_start(struct mmu_notifier *_mn,
> else
> it = interval_tree_iter_first(&mn->objects, start, end);
> if (it != NULL) {
> - obj = container_of(it, struct i915_mmu_object, it)->obj;
> + struct i915_mmu_object *mo =
> + container_of(it, struct i915_mmu_object, it);
>
> /* The mmu_object is released late when destroying the
> * GEM object so it is entirely possible to gain a
> @@ -160,11 +163,9 @@ static void i915_gem_userptr_mn_invalidate_range_start(struct mmu_notifier *_mn,
> * the struct_mutex - and consequently use it after it
> * is freed and then double free it.
> */
> - if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&obj->base.refcount)) {
> - spin_unlock(&mn->lock);
> - serial = 0;
> - continue;
> - }
> + if (mo->active &&
> + kref_get_unless_zero(&mo->obj->base.refcount))
> + obj = mo->obj;
>
> serial = mn->serial;
> }
> @@ -606,6 +607,20 @@ __i915_gem_userptr_get_pages_worker(struct work_struct *_work)
> wake_up_all(&to_i915(dev)->mm.queue);
> }
>
> +static void
> +__i915_gem_userptr_set_active(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
> + bool value)
> +{
> +#if defined(CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER)
> + if (obj->userptr.mmu_object == NULL)
> + return;
> +
> + spin_lock(&obj->userptr.mmu_object->mn->lock);
> + obj->userptr.mmu_object->active = value;
> + spin_unlock(&obj->userptr.mmu_object->mn->lock);
> +#endif
> +}
> +
> static int
> i915_gem_userptr_get_pages(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
> {
> @@ -613,6 +628,18 @@ i915_gem_userptr_get_pages(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
> struct page **pvec;
> int pinned, ret;
>
> + /* During mm_invalidate_range we need to cancel any userptr that
> + * overlaps the range being invalidated. Doing so requires the
> + * struct_mutex, and that risks recursion. In order to cause
> + * recursion, the user must alias the userptr address space with
> + * a GTT mmapping (possible with a MAP_FIXED) - then when we have
> + * to invalidate that mmaping, mm_invalidate_range is called with
> + * the userptr address *and* the struct_mutex held. To prevent that
> + * we set a flag under the i915_mmu_notifier spinlock to indicate
> + * whether this object is valid.
> + */
> + __i915_gem_userptr_set_active(obj, true);
> +
This will set mmu_object to active even if we're exiting early from here
(because of error handling), creating another possibility for deadlock.
-Michał
> /* If userspace should engineer that these pages are replaced in
> * the vma between us binding this page into the GTT and completion
> * of rendering... Their loss. If they change the mapping of their
> @@ -732,6 +759,8 @@ i915_gem_userptr_put_pages(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
>
> sg_free_table(obj->pages);
> kfree(obj->pages);
> +
> + __i915_gem_userptr_set_active(obj, false);
> }
>
> static void
> --
> 2.1.4
>
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