Re: [PATCH v2 14/17] resource: Move devmem revoke code to resource framework

Dan Williams
2020-10-09T18:29:10Z

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 7:32 AM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 04:24:45PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 2:31 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 09:59:31AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > >
> > > > +struct address_space *iomem_get_mapping(void)
> > > > +{
> > > > + return iomem_inode->i_mapping;
> > >
> > > This should pair an acquire with the release below
> > >
> > > > + /*
> > > > + * Publish /dev/mem initialized.
> > > > + * Pairs with smp_load_acquire() in revoke_iomem().
> > > > + */
> > > > + smp_store_release(&iomem_inode, inode);
> > >
> > > However, this seems abnormal, initcalls rarely do this kind of stuff
> > > with global data..
> > >
> > > The kernel crashes if this fs_initcall is raced with
> > > iomem_get_mapping() due to the unconditional dereference, so I think
> > > it can be safely switched to a simple assignment.
> >
> > Ah yes I checked this all, but forgot to correctly annotate the
> > iomem_get_mapping access. For reference, see b34e7e298d7a ("/dev/mem:
> > Add missing memory barriers for devmem_inode").
>
> Oh yikes, so revoke_iomem can run concurrently during early boot,
> tricky.

It runs early because request_mem_region() can run before fs_initcall.
Rather than add an unnecessary lock just arrange for the revoke to be
skipped before the inode is initialized. The expectation is that any
early resource reservations will block future userspace mapping
attempts.