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

Christian König christian.koenig at amd.com
Fri Feb 5 13:42:54 UTC 2021


Am 05.02.21 um 14:41 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.
>
> References: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.kernel.org%2Flkml%2FCAKMK7uHi%2BmG0z0HUmNt13QCCvutuRVjpcR0NjRL12k-WbWzkRg%40mail.gmail.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cchristian.koenig%40amd.com%7Ca8634bb0be8d4b0de8c108d8c9dbb81c%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637481292814972959%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=8rylgsXhWvQT5zwt1Sc2Nb2IQR%2Fkd16ErIHfZ4PErZI%3D&reserved=0
> 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

Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>

> ---
>   drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
> index f264b70c383e..06cb1d2e9fdc 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
> @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ static struct file_system_type dma_buf_fs_type = {
>   static int dma_buf_mmap_internal(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>   {
>   	struct dma_buf *dmabuf;
> +	int ret;
>   
>   	if (!is_dma_buf_file(file))
>   		return -EINVAL;
> @@ -142,7 +143,11 @@ static int dma_buf_mmap_internal(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>   	    dmabuf->size >> PAGE_SHIFT)
>   		return -EINVAL;
>   
> -	return dmabuf->ops->mmap(dmabuf, vma);
> +	ret = dmabuf->ops->mmap(dmabuf, vma);
> +
> +	WARN_ON(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP));
> +
> +	return ret;
>   }
>   
>   static loff_t dma_buf_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
> @@ -1244,6 +1249,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dma_buf_end_cpu_access);
>   int dma_buf_mmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>   		 unsigned long pgoff)
>   {
> +	int ret;
> +
>   	if (WARN_ON(!dmabuf || !vma))
>   		return -EINVAL;
>   
> @@ -1264,7 +1271,11 @@ int dma_buf_mmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>   	vma_set_file(vma, dmabuf->file);
>   	vma->vm_pgoff = pgoff;
>   
> -	return dmabuf->ops->mmap(dmabuf, vma);
> +	ret = dmabuf->ops->mmap(dmabuf, vma);
> +
> +	WARN_ON(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP));
> +
> +	return ret;
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dma_buf_mmap);
>   



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