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From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: <linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org>, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/10] cxl/memdev: Fix sanitize vs decoder setup locking
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 17:46:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231009174624.00000bd7@Huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <169657719974.1491153.15276451196916291864.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com>

On Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:26:39 -0700
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:

> The sanitize operation is destructive and the expectation is that the
> device is unmapped while in progress. The current implementation does a
> lockless check for decoders being active, but then does nothing to
> prevent decoders from racing to be committed. Introduce state tracking
> to resolve this race.
> 
> This incidentally cleans up unpriveleged userspace from triggering mmio
> read cycles by spinning on reading the 'securiry/state' attribute. Which

Needs a spell check.  security

> at a minimum is a waste since the kernel state machine can cache the
> completion result.
> 
> Lastly cxl_mem_sanitize() was mistakenly marked EXPORT_SYMBOL() in the
> original implementation, but an export was never required.
> 
> Fixes: 0c36b6ad436a ("cxl/mbox: Add sanitization handling machinery")
> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-09 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-06  7:25 [PATCH v3 00/10] cxl/mem: Fix shutdown order Dan Williams
2023-10-06  7:26 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] cxl/pci: Remove unnecessary device reference management in sanitize work Dan Williams
2023-10-06  7:26 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] cxl/pci: Cleanup 'sanitize' to always poll Dan Williams
2023-10-09 17:19   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2023-10-09 18:39     ` Dan Williams
2023-10-09 20:48       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2023-10-06  7:26 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] cxl/pci: Remove hardirq handler for cxl_request_irq() Dan Williams
2023-10-06 22:06   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2023-10-09  3:29   ` Ira Weiny
2023-10-09 16:36   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-10-13 16:59   ` Dave Jiang
2023-10-06  7:26 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] cxl/pci: Remove inconsistent usage of dev_err_probe() Dan Williams
2023-10-06 22:10   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2023-10-09  3:42   ` Ira Weiny
2023-10-09 16:38   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-10-13 17:09   ` Dave Jiang
2023-10-06  7:26 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] cxl/pci: Clarify devm host for memdev relative setup Dan Williams
2023-10-09  3:50   ` Ira Weiny
2023-10-09 16:41   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-10-13 17:12   ` Dave Jiang
2023-10-06  7:26 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] cxl/pci: Fix sanitize notifier setup Dan Williams
2023-10-09 16:42   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-10-09 18:08   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2023-10-06  7:26 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] cxl/memdev: Fix sanitize vs decoder setup locking Dan Williams
2023-10-06 10:10   ` kernel test robot
2023-10-09  4:17   ` Ira Weiny
2023-10-09 18:18     ` Dan Williams
2023-10-09 22:32       ` Dan Williams
2023-10-09 16:46   ` Jonathan Cameron [this message]
2023-10-09 18:36     ` Dan Williams
2023-10-11 20:44       ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-10-10 20:21   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2023-10-13 17:20   ` Dave Jiang
2023-10-06  7:26 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] cxl/mem: Fix shutdown order Dan Williams
2023-10-06  7:26 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] tools/testing/cxl: Make cxl_memdev_state available to other command emulation Dan Williams
2023-10-09  3:24   ` Ira Weiny
2023-10-13 17:21   ` Dave Jiang
2023-10-06  7:26 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] tools/testing/cxl: Add 'sanitize notifier' support Dan Williams
2023-10-09  4:25   ` Ira Weiny
2023-10-13 17:25   ` Dave Jiang

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