Re: [PATCH 5.10] xen/gntdev: Avoid blocking in unmap_grant_pages()

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On 30.06.22 13:34, Greg KH wrote:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 02:10:02PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
commit dbe97cff7dd9f0f75c524afdd55ad46be3d15295 upstream

unmap_grant_pages() currently waits for the pages to no longer be used.
In https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/7481, this lead to a
deadlock against i915: i915 was waiting for gntdev's MMU notifier to
finish, while gntdev was waiting for i915 to free its pages.  I also
believe this is responsible for various deadlocks I have experienced in
the past.

Avoid these problems by making unmap_grant_pages async.  This requires
making it return void, as any errors will not be available when the
function returns.  Fortunately, the only use of the return value is a
WARN_ON(), which can be replaced by a WARN_ON when the error is
detected.  Additionally, a failed call will not prevent further calls
from being made, but this is harmless.

Because unmap_grant_pages is now async, the grant handle will be sent to
INVALID_GRANT_HANDLE too late to prevent multiple unmaps of the same
handle.  Instead, a separate bool array is allocated for this purpose.
This wastes memory, but stuffing this information in padding bytes is
too fragile.  Furthermore, it is necessary to grab a reference to the
map before making the asynchronous call, and release the reference when
the call returns.

It is also necessary to guard against reentrancy in gntdev_map_put(),
and to handle the case where userspace tries to map a mapping whose
contents have not all been freed yet.

Fixes: 745282256c75 ("xen/gntdev: safely unmap grants in case they are still in use")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220622022726.2538-1-demi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
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  drivers/xen/gntdev-common.h |   7 ++
  drivers/xen/gntdev.c        | 142 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
  2 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

All now queued up, thanks.

Sorry, but I think at least the version for 5.10 is fishy, as it removes
the tests for successful allocations of add->map_ops and add->unmap_ops.

I need to do a thorough review of the patches (the "Reviewed-by:" tag in
the patches is the one for the upstream patch).

Greg, can you please wait for my explicit "okay" for the backports?


Juergen

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