On 09/12/2013 10:39 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Daniel Vetter wrote:
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think for ttm drivers it's just execbuf being exploitable. But on
drm/i915 we've
had the same issue with the pwrite/pread ioctls, so a simple
glBufferData(glMap) kind of recursion from gl clients blew the kernel
to pieces ...
And the only answer you folks came up with is set_need_resched() and
yield()? Oh well....
The yield was for a different lifelock, and that one is also fixed by
now. The fault handler deadlock was fixed in the usual "drop locks and
jump into slowpath" fasion, at least in drm/i915.
So we can remove that whole yield/set_need_resched() mess completely ?
Thanks,
tglx
No.
The while(trylock) is there to address a potential locking inversion
deadlock. If the trylock fails, the code returns to user-space which
retries the fault. This code needs to stay until we can come up with
either a way to drop the mmap_sem and sleep before returning to
user-space, or a bunch of code is fixed with a different locking order.
The set_need_resched() can (and should according to Peter) go.
/Thomas
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