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

John Hubbard
2019-11-19T08:18:23Z

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@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@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]);
--
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