[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v4 01/14] drm/ttm: stop calling tt_swapin in vm_access

Matthew Auld matthew.auld at intel.com
Tue Sep 21 11:01:08 UTC 2021


In commit:

commit 09ac4fcb3f255e9225967c75f5893325c116cdbe
Author: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling at amd.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 13 17:01:16 2017 -0400

    drm/ttm: Implement vm_operations_struct.access v2

we added the vm_access hook, where we also directly call tt_swapin for
some reason. If something is swapped-out then the ttm_tt must also be
unpopulated, and since access_kmap should also call tt_populate, if
needed, then swapping-in will already be handled there.

If anything, calling tt_swapin directly here would likely always fail
since the tt->pages won't yet be populated, or worse since the tt->pages
array is never actually cleared in unpopulate this might lead to a nasty
uaf.

Fixes: 09ac4fcb3f25 ("drm/ttm: Implement vm_operations_struct.access v2")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c
index f56be5bc0861..5b9b7fd01a69 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c
@@ -519,11 +519,6 @@ int ttm_bo_vm_access(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 
 	switch (bo->resource->mem_type) {
 	case TTM_PL_SYSTEM:
-		if (unlikely(bo->ttm->page_flags & TTM_PAGE_FLAG_SWAPPED)) {
-			ret = ttm_tt_swapin(bo->ttm);
-			if (unlikely(ret != 0))
-				return ret;
-		}
 		fallthrough;
 	case TTM_PL_TT:
 		ret = ttm_bo_vm_access_kmap(bo, offset, buf, len, write);
-- 
2.26.3



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