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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5.16 0702/1039] drm/amdgpu: Dont inherit GEM object VMAs in child process
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 08:26:20AM +0100, Christian König wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Am 24.01.22 um 19:41 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > From: Rajneesh Bhardwaj <rajneesh.bhardwaj@amd.com>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit fbcdbfde87509d523132b59f661a355c731139d0 ]
> >
> > When an application having open file access to a node forks, its shared
> > mappings also get reflected in the address space of child process even
> > though it cannot access them with the object permissions applied. With the
> > existing permission checks on the gem objects, it might be reasonable to
> > also create the VMAs with VM_DONTCOPY flag so a user space application
> > doesn't need to explicitly call the madvise(addr, len, MADV_DONTFORK)
> > system call to prevent the pages in the mapped range to appear in the
> > address space of the child process. It also prevents the memory leaks
> > due to additional reference counts on the mapped BOs in the child
> > process that prevented freeing the memory in the parent for which we had
> > worked around earlier in the user space inside the thunk library.
> >
> > Additionally, we faced this issue when using CRIU to checkpoint restore
> > an application that had such inherited mappings in the child which
> > confuse CRIU when it mmaps on restore. Having this flag set for the
> > render node VMAs helps. VMAs mapped via KFD already take care of this so
> > this is needed only for the render nodes.
> >
> > To limit the impact of the change to user space consumers such as OpenGL
> > etc, limit it to KFD BOs only.
> >
> > Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> > Signed-off-by: David Yat Sin <david.yatsin@amd.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Rajneesh Bhardwaj <rajneesh.bhardwaj@amd.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>
> Please drop this patch from all stable versions since it was reverted from
> upstream later on.

The revert comes later in the patch series, so all should be ok :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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