On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 03:14:45PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 12:39:53PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 04:34:07PM +0000, Xiong, Jianxin wrote: > > > > > > The user could specify a length that is beyond the dma buf, can > > > > the dma buf length be checked during get? > > > > > > In order to check the length, the buffer needs to be mapped. That can be done. > > > > Do DMA bufs even have definitate immutable lengths? Going to be a > > probelm if they can shrink > > Yup. Unfortunately that's not document in the structures themselves, > there's just some random comments sprinkled all over that dma-buf size is > invariant, e.g. see the @mmap kerneldoc in dma_buf_ops: > > https://dri.freedesktop.org/docs/drm/driver-api/dma-buf.html?highlight=dma_buf_ops#c.dma_buf_ops > > "Because dma-buf buffers have invariant size over their lifetime, ..." > > Jianxin, can you pls do a kerneldoc patch which updates the comment for > dma_buf.size and dma_buf_export_info.size? So we can check the size without doing an attachment? That means the flow should be put back to how it was a series or two ago where the SGL is only attached during page fault with the entire programming sequence under the resv lock Jason
