Patch "mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mm-introduce-get_user_pages_longterm.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 2bb6d2837083de722bfdc369cb0d76ce188dd9b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:10:35 -0800
Subject: mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm

From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

commit 2bb6d2837083de722bfdc369cb0d76ce188dd9b4 upstream.

Patch series "introduce get_user_pages_longterm()", v2.

Here is a new get_user_pages api for cases where a driver intends to
keep an elevated page count indefinitely.  This is distinct from usages
like iov_iter_get_pages where the elevated page counts are transient.
The iov_iter_get_pages cases immediately turn around and submit the
pages to a device driver which will put_page when the i/o operation
completes (under kernel control).

In the longterm case userspace is responsible for dropping the page
reference at some undefined point in the future.  This is untenable for
filesystem-dax case where the filesystem is in control of the lifetime
of the block / page and needs reasonable limits on how long it can wait
for pages in a mapping to become idle.

Fixing filesystems to actually wait for dax pages to be idle before
blocks from a truncate/hole-punch operation are repurposed is saved for
a later patch series.

Also, allowing longterm registration of dax mappings is a future patch
series that introduces a "map with lease" semantic where the kernel can
revoke a lease and force userspace to drop its page references.

I have also tagged these for -stable to purposely break cases that might
assume that longterm memory registrations for filesystem-dax mappings
were supported by the kernel.  The behavior regression this policy
change implies is one of the reasons we maintain the "dax enabled.
Warning: EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk" notification when mounting
a filesystem in dax mode.

It is worth noting the device-dax interface does not suffer the same
constraints since it does not support file space management operations
like hole-punch.

This patch (of 4):

Until there is a solution to the dma-to-dax vs truncate problem it is
not safe to allow long standing memory registrations against
filesytem-dax vmas.  Device-dax vmas do not have this problem and are
explicitly allowed.

This is temporary until a "memory registration with layout-lease"
mechanism can be implemented for the affected sub-systems (RDMA and
V4L2).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use kcalloc()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151068939435.7446.13560129395419350737.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Fixes: 3565fce3a659 ("mm, x86: get_user_pages() for dax mappings")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>
Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@samsung.com>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/fs.h |   14 +++++++++++
 include/linux/mm.h |   13 ++++++++++
 mm/gup.c           |   64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 91 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3175,6 +3175,20 @@ static inline bool vma_is_dax(struct vm_
 	return vma->vm_file && IS_DAX(vma->vm_file->f_mapping->host);
 }
 
+static inline bool vma_is_fsdax(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	struct inode *inode;
+
+	if (!vma->vm_file)
+		return false;
+	if (!vma_is_dax(vma))
+		return false;
+	inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
+	if (inode->i_mode == S_IFCHR)
+		return false; /* device-dax */
+	return true;
+}
+
 static inline int iocb_flags(struct file *file)
 {
 	int res = 0;
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1368,6 +1368,19 @@ long get_user_pages_locked(unsigned long
 		    unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages, int *locked);
 long get_user_pages_unlocked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
 		    struct page **pages, unsigned int gup_flags);
+#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
+long get_user_pages_longterm(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
+			    unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages,
+			    struct vm_area_struct **vmas);
+#else
+static inline long get_user_pages_longterm(unsigned long start,
+		unsigned long nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags,
+		struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
+{
+	return get_user_pages(start, nr_pages, gup_flags, pages, vmas);
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_FS_DAX */
+
 int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
 			struct page **pages);
 
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -1095,6 +1095,70 @@ long get_user_pages(unsigned long start,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
+/*
+ * This is the same as get_user_pages() in that it assumes we are
+ * operating on the current task's mm, but it goes further to validate
+ * that the vmas associated with the address range are suitable for
+ * longterm elevated page reference counts. For example, filesystem-dax
+ * mappings are subject to the lifetime enforced by the filesystem and
+ * we need guarantees that longterm users like RDMA and V4L2 only
+ * establish mappings that have a kernel enforced revocation mechanism.
+ *
+ * "longterm" == userspace controlled elevated page count lifetime.
+ * Contrast this to iov_iter_get_pages() usages which are transient.
+ */
+long get_user_pages_longterm(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
+		unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages,
+		struct vm_area_struct **vmas_arg)
+{
+	struct vm_area_struct **vmas = vmas_arg;
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma_prev = NULL;
+	long rc, i;
+
+	if (!pages)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (!vmas) {
+		vmas = kcalloc(nr_pages, sizeof(struct vm_area_struct *),
+			       GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!vmas)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
+	rc = get_user_pages(start, nr_pages, gup_flags, pages, vmas);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < rc; i++) {
+		struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmas[i];
+
+		if (vma == vma_prev)
+			continue;
+
+		vma_prev = vma;
+
+		if (vma_is_fsdax(vma))
+			break;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Either get_user_pages() failed, or the vma validation
+	 * succeeded, in either case we don't need to put_page() before
+	 * returning.
+	 */
+	if (i >= rc)
+		goto out;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < rc; i++)
+		put_page(pages[i]);
+	rc = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+out:
+	if (vmas != vmas_arg)
+		kfree(vmas);
+	return rc;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_longterm);
+#endif /* CONFIG_FS_DAX */
+
 /**
  * populate_vma_page_range() -  populate a range of pages in the vma.
  * @vma:   target vma


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.j.williams@intel.com are

queue-4.14/mm-hugetlbfs-introduce-split-to-vm_operations_struct.patch
queue-4.14/ib-core-disable-memory-registration-of-filesystem-dax-vmas.patch
queue-4.14/mm-introduce-get_user_pages_longterm.patch
queue-4.14/mm-fail-get_vaddr_frames-for-filesystem-dax-mappings.patch
queue-4.14/device-dax-implement-split-to-catch-invalid-munmap-attempts.patch
queue-4.14/v4l2-disable-filesystem-dax-mapping-support.patch
queue-4.14/mm-fix-device-dax-pud-write-faults-triggered-by-get_user_pages.patch
queue-4.14/mm-madvise.c-fix-madvise-infinite-loop-under-special-circumstances.patch