Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Nov 2020 09:01:15 -0400 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 08/15] mm: Add unsafe_follow_pfn |
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On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 01:56:10PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 8:29 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:08:08AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > Also mark up follow_pfn as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. The only safe way to use > > > that by drivers/modules is together with an mmu_notifier, and that's > > > all _GPL stuff. > > > > I also think it also needs to be renamed to explicitly break any existing > > users out of tree or int the submission queue. > > Ok I looked at the mmu notifier locking again and noticed that > mm->subscriptions has its own spinlock. Since there usually shouldn't > be a huge pile of these I think it's feasible to check for the mmu > notifier in follow_pfn. And that would stuff this gap for good. I'll > throw that on top as a final patch and see what people think.
Probably the simplest is to just check mm_has_notifiers() when in lockdep or something very simple like that
Jason
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