• Demi Marie Obenour's avatar
    xen/gntdev: Avoid blocking in unmap_grant_pages() · dbe97cff
    Demi Marie Obenour authored
    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: 74528225 ("xen/gntdev: safely unmap grants in case they are still in use")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDemi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220622022726.2538-1-demi@invisiblethingslab.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    dbe97cff
gntdev-common.h 2.36 KB