[PATCH kernel v4 03/19] powerpc/vfio/iommu/kvm: Do not pin device memory
Paul Mackerras
paulus at ozlabs.org
Thu Dec 13 14:25:32 AEDT 2018
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 04:52:48PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> This new memory does not have page structs as it is not plugged to
> the host so gup() will fail anyway.
>
> This adds 2 helpers:
> - mm_iommu_newdev() to preregister the "memory device" memory so
> the rest of API can still be used;
> - mm_iommu_is_devmem() to know if the physical address is one of thise
> new regions which we must avoid unpinning of.
>
> This adds @mm to tce_page_is_contained() and iommu_tce_xchg() to test
> if the memory is device memory to avoid pfn_to_page().
>
> This adds a check for device memory in mm_iommu_ua_mark_dirty_rm() which
> does delayed pages dirtying.
This mostly looks good, but I have one concern:
> -static bool tce_page_is_contained(struct page *page, unsigned page_shift)
> +static bool tce_page_is_contained(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long hpa,
> + unsigned int page_shift)
> {
> + struct page *page;
> +
> + if (mm_iommu_is_devmem(mm, hpa, page_shift))
> + return true;
> +
> + page = pfn_to_page(hpa >> PAGE_SHIFT);
Is it possible for userspace or a guest to cause us to get here with
hpa value that is bogus? If so what does pfn_to_page do with that
pfn, and do we handle that correctly?
(I realize that if there is a problem here, it's a problem that
already exists in the code without this patch.)
Paul.
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