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drm/i915/userptr: Try to acquire the page lock around set_page_dirty()

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set_page_dirty says:

	For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock
	for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a
	consistent dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special
	cases, but should be better not to.

Under those rules, it is only safe for us to use the plain set_page_dirty
calls for shmemfs/anonymous memory. Userptr may be used with real
mappings and so needs to use the locked version (set_page_dirty_lock).

However, following a try_to_unmap() we may want to remove the userptr and
so call put_pages(). However, try_to_unmap() acquires the page lock and
so we must avoid recursively locking the pages ourselves -- which means
that we cannot safely acquire the lock around set_page_dirty(). Since we
can't be sure of the lock, we have to risk skip dirtying the page, or
else risk calling set_page_dirty() without a lock and so risk fs
corruption.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203317
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112012
Fixes: 5cc9ed4b9a ("drm/i915: Introduce mapping of user pages into video memory (userptr) ioctl")
References: cb6d7c7dc7 ("drm/i915/userptr: Acquire the page lock around set_page_dirty()")
References: 505a8ec7e1 ("Revert "drm/i915/userptr: Acquire the page lock around set_page_dirty()"")
References: 6dcc693bc5 ("ext4: warn when page is dirtied without buffers")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191111133205.11590-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
(cherry picked from commit 0d4bbe3d40)
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit cee7fb437e)
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
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Chris Wilson 2019-11-11 13:32:03 +00:00 committed by Rodrigo Vivi
parent add3eeed36
commit 2d691aeca4
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drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_userptr.c
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@ -671,8 +671,28 @@ i915_gem_userptr_put_pages(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
obj->mm.dirty = false;
for_each_sgt_page(page, sgt_iter, pages) {
if (obj->mm.dirty)
if (obj->mm.dirty && trylock_page(page)) {
/*
* As this may not be anonymous memory (e.g. shmem)
* but exist on a real mapping, we have to lock
* the page in order to dirty it -- holding
* the page reference is not sufficient to
* prevent the inode from being truncated.
* Play safe and take the lock.
*
* However...!
*
* The mmu-notifier can be invalidated for a
* migrate_page, that is alreadying holding the lock
* on the page. Such a try_to_unmap() will result
* in us calling put_pages() and so recursively try
* to lock the page. We avoid that deadlock with
* a trylock_page() and in exchange we risk missing
* some page dirtying.
*/
set_page_dirty(page);
unlock_page(page);
}
mark_page_accessed(page);
put_page(page);