[PATCH v6 19/24] vfio, mm: pin_user_pages (FOLL_PIN) and put_user_page() conversion

John Hubbard jhubbard at nvidia.com
Tue Nov 19 19:16:38 AEDT 2019


1. Change vfio from get_user_pages_remote(), to
pin_user_pages_remote().

2. Because all FOLL_PIN-acquired pages must be released via
put_user_page(), also convert the put_page() call over to
put_user_pages_dirty_lock().

Note that this effectively changes the code's behavior in
vfio_iommu_type1.c: put_pfn(): it now ultimately calls
set_page_dirty_lock(), instead of set_page_dirty(). This is
probably more accurate.

As Christoph Hellwig put it, "set_page_dirty() is only safe if we are
dealing with a file backed page where we have reference on the inode it
hangs off." [1]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190723153640.GB720@lst.de

Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
index c7a111ad9975..18aa36b56896 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
@@ -327,9 +327,8 @@ static int put_pfn(unsigned long pfn, int prot)
 {
 	if (!is_invalid_reserved_pfn(pfn)) {
 		struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
-		if (prot & IOMMU_WRITE)
-			SetPageDirty(page);
-		put_page(page);
+
+		put_user_pages_dirty_lock(&page, 1, prot & IOMMU_WRITE);
 		return 1;
 	}
 	return 0;
@@ -347,7 +346,7 @@ static int vaddr_get_pfn(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr,
 		flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
 
 	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	ret = get_user_pages_remote(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, flags | FOLL_LONGTERM,
+	ret = pin_user_pages_remote(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, flags | FOLL_LONGTERM,
 				    page, NULL, NULL);
 	if (ret == 1) {
 		*pfn = page_to_pfn(page[0]);
-- 
2.24.0



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