This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vfio: disable filesystem-dax page pinning
to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: vfio-disable-filesystem-dax-page-pinning.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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 94db151dc89262bfa82922c44e8320cea2334667 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 10:34:02 -0800 Subject: vfio: disable filesystem-dax page pinning
From: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com
commit 94db151dc89262bfa82922c44e8320cea2334667 upstream.
Filesystem-DAX is incompatible with 'longterm' page pinning. Without page cache indirection a DAX mapping maps filesystem blocks directly. This means that the filesystem must not modify a file's block map while any page in a mapping is pinned. In order to prevent the situation of userspace holding of filesystem operations indefinitely, disallow 'longterm' Filesystem-DAX mappings.
RDMA has the same conflict and the plan there is to add a 'with lease' mechanism to allow the kernel to notify userspace that the mapping is being torn down for block-map maintenance. Perhaps something similar can be put in place for vfio.
Note that xfs and ext4 still report:
"DAX enabled. Warning: EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk"
...at mount time, and resolving the dax-dma-vs-truncate problem is one of the last hurdles to remove that designation.
Acked-by: Alex Williamson alex.williamson@redhat.com Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Haozhong Zhang haozhong.zhang@intel.com Tested-by: Haozhong Zhang haozhong.zhang@intel.com Fixes: d475c6346a38 ("dax,ext2: replace XIP read and write with DAX I/O") Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c @@ -338,11 +338,12 @@ static int vaddr_get_pfn(struct mm_struc { struct page *page[1]; struct vm_area_struct *vma; + struct vm_area_struct *vmas[1]; int ret;
if (mm == current->mm) { - ret = get_user_pages_fast(vaddr, 1, !!(prot & IOMMU_WRITE), - page); + ret = get_user_pages_longterm(vaddr, 1, !!(prot & IOMMU_WRITE), + page, vmas); } else { unsigned int flags = 0;
@@ -351,7 +352,18 @@ static int vaddr_get_pfn(struct mm_struc
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); ret = get_user_pages_remote(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, flags, page, - NULL, NULL); + vmas, NULL); + /* + * The lifetime of a vaddr_get_pfn() page pin is + * userspace-controlled. In the fs-dax case this could + * lead to indefinite stalls in filesystem operations. + * Disallow attempts to pin fs-dax pages via this + * interface. + */ + if (ret > 0 && vma_is_fsdax(vmas[0])) { + ret = -EOPNOTSUPP; + put_page(page[0]); + } up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.j.williams@intel.com are
queue-4.15/dax-fix-vma_is_fsdax-helper.patch queue-4.15/vfio-disable-filesystem-dax-page-pinning.patch