On Thu, 17 May 2018 21:25:22 +0530
Kirti Wankhede <kwankh...@nvidia.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/2018 1:39 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 May 2018 21:30:19 -0600
> > Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> When we create an mdev device, we check for duplicates against the
> >> parent device and return -EEXIST if found, but the mdev device
> >> namespace is global since we'll link all devices from the bus. We do
> >> catch this later in sysfs_do_create_link_sd() to return -EEXIST, but
> >> with it comes a kernel warning and stack trace for trying to create
> >> duplicate sysfs links, which makes it an undesirable response.
> >>
> >> Therefore we should really be looking for duplicates across all mdev
> >> parent devices, or as implemented here, against our mdev device list.
> >> Using mdev_list to prevent duplicates means that we can remove
> >> mdev_parent.lock, but in order not to serialize mdev device creation
> >> and removal globally, we add mdev_device.active which allows UUIDs to
> >> be reserved such that we can drop the mdev_list_lock before the mdev
> >> device is fully in place.
> >>
> >> NB. there was never intended to be any serialization guarantee
> >> provided by the mdev core with respect to creation and removal of mdev
> >> devices, mdev_parent.lock provided this only as a side-effect of the
> >> implementation for locking the namespace per parent. That
> >> serialization is now removed.
> >
>
> mdev_parent.lock is to serialize create and remove of that mdev device,
> that handles race condition that Cornelia mentioned below.
Previously it was stated:
On Thu, 17 May 2018 01:01:40 +0530
Kirti Wankhede <kwankh...@nvidia.com> wrote:
> Here lock is not for create/remove routines of vendor driver, its about
> mdev device creation and device registration, which is a common code
> path, and so is part of mdev core module.
So the race condition was handled previously, but as a side-effect of
protecting the namespace, aiui. I'm trying to state above that the
serialization of create/remove was never intended as a guarantee
provided to mdev vendor drivers. I don't see that there's a need to
protect "mdev device creation and device registration" beyond conflicts
in the UUID namespace, which is done here. Are there others?
> > This is probably fine; but I noted that documentation on the locking
> > conventions and serialization guarantees for mdev is a bit sparse, and
> > this topic also came up during the vfio-ap review.
> >
> > We probably want to add some more concrete documentation; would the
> > kernel doc for the _ops or vfio-mediated-device.txt be a better place
> > for that?
I'll look to see where we can add a note withing that file, I suspect
that's the right place to put it.
> > [Dong Jia, Halil: Can you please take a look whether vfio-ccw is really
> > ok? I don't think we open up any new races, but I'd appreciate a second
> > or third opinion.]
> >
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> v3: Rework locking and add a field to mdev_device so we can track
> >> completed instances vs those added to reserve the namespace.
> >>
> >> drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c | 94
> >> +++++++++++++-------------------------
> >> drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_private.h | 2 -
> >> 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c b/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c
> >> index 126991046eb7..55ea9d34ec69 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c
> >> @@ -66,34 +66,6 @@ uuid_le mdev_uuid(struct mdev_device *mdev)
> >> }
> >> EXPORT_SYMBOL(mdev_uuid);
> >>
> >> -static int _find_mdev_device(struct device *dev, void *data)
> >> -{
> >> - struct mdev_device *mdev;
> >> -
> >> - if (!dev_is_mdev(dev))
> >> - return 0;
> >> -
> >> - mdev = to_mdev_device(dev);
> >> -
> >> - if (uuid_le_cmp(mdev->uuid, *(uuid_le *)data) == 0)
> >> - return 1;
> >> -
> >> - return 0;
> >> -}
> >> -
> >> -static bool mdev_device_exist(struct mdev_parent *parent, uuid_le uuid)
> >> -{
> >> - struct device *dev;
> >> -
> >> - dev = device_find_child(parent->dev, &uuid, _find_mdev_device);
> >> - if (dev) {
> >> - put_device(dev);
> >> - return true;
> >> - }
> >> -
> >> - return false;
> >> -}
> >> -
> >> /* Should be called holding parent_list_lock */
> >> static struct mdev_parent *__find_parent_device(struct device *dev)
> >> {
> >> @@ -221,7 +193,6 @@ int mdev_register_device(struct device *dev, const
> >> struct mdev_parent_ops *ops)
> >> }
> >>
> >> kref_init(&parent->ref);
> >> - mutex_init(&parent->lock);
> >>
> >> parent->dev = dev;
> >> parent->ops = ops;
> >> @@ -304,7 +275,7 @@ static void mdev_device_release(struct device *dev)
> >> int mdev_device_create(struct kobject *kobj, struct device *dev, uuid_le
> >> uuid)
> >> {
> >> int ret;
> >> - struct mdev_device *mdev;
> >> + struct mdev_device *mdev, *tmp;
> >> struct mdev_parent *parent;
> >> struct mdev_type *type = to_mdev_type(kobj);
> >>
> >> @@ -312,21 +283,26 @@ int mdev_device_create(struct kobject *kobj, struct
> >> device *dev, uuid_le uuid)
> >> if (!parent)
> >> return -EINVAL;
> >>
> >> - mutex_lock(&parent->lock);
> >> + mutex_lock(&mdev_list_lock);
> >>
> >> /* Check for duplicate */
> >> - if (mdev_device_exist(parent, uuid)) {
> >> - ret = -EEXIST;
> >> - goto create_err;
> >> + list_for_each_entry(tmp, &mdev_list, next) {
> >> + if (!uuid_le_cmp(tmp->uuid, uuid)) {
> >> + mutex_unlock(&mdev_list_lock);
> >> + return -EEXIST;
> >> + }
> >> }
> >>
>
> mdev_put_parent(parent) missing before return.
>
>
> >> mdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*mdev), GFP_KERNEL);
> >> if (!mdev) {
> >> - ret = -ENOMEM;
> >> - goto create_err;
> >> + mutex_unlock(&mdev_list_lock);
> >> + return -ENOMEM;
> >> }
> >>
>
> mdev_put_parent(parent) missing here again.
Oops, will fix both.
> >> memcpy(&mdev->uuid, &uuid, sizeof(uuid_le));
> >> + list_add(&mdev->next, &mdev_list);
> >> + mutex_unlock(&mdev_list_lock);
> >> +
> >> mdev->parent = parent;
> >> kref_init(&mdev->ref);
> >>
> >> @@ -352,21 +328,18 @@ int mdev_device_create(struct kobject *kobj, struct
> >> device *dev, uuid_le uuid)
> >> }
> >>
> >> mdev->type_kobj = kobj;
> >> + mdev->active = true;
> >> dev_dbg(&mdev->dev, "MDEV: created\n");
> >>
> >> - mutex_unlock(&parent->lock);
> >> -
> >> - mutex_lock(&mdev_list_lock);
> >> - list_add(&mdev->next, &mdev_list);
> >> - mutex_unlock(&mdev_list_lock);
> >> -
> >> - return ret;
> >> + return 0;
> >>
> >> create_failed:
> >> device_unregister(&mdev->dev);
> >>
> >> create_err:
> >> - mutex_unlock(&parent->lock);
> >> + mutex_lock(&mdev_list_lock);
> >> + list_del(&mdev->next);
> >> + mutex_unlock(&mdev_list_lock);
> >> mdev_put_parent(parent);
> >> return ret;
> >> }
> >> @@ -377,44 +350,43 @@ int mdev_device_remove(struct device *dev, bool
> >> force_remove)
> >> struct mdev_parent *parent;
> >> struct mdev_type *type;
> >> int ret;
> >> - bool found = false;
> >>
> >> mdev = to_mdev_device(dev);
> >>
> >> mutex_lock(&mdev_list_lock);
> >> list_for_each_entry(tmp, &mdev_list, next) {
> >> - if (tmp == mdev) {
> >> - found = true;
> >> + if (tmp == mdev)
> >> break;
> >> - }
> >> }
> >>
> >> - if (found)
> >> - list_del(&mdev->next);
> >> + if (tmp != mdev) {
> >> + mutex_unlock(&mdev_list_lock);
> >> + return -ENODEV;
> >> + }
> >>
> >> - mutex_unlock(&mdev_list_lock);
> >> + if (!mdev->active) {
> >> + mutex_unlock(&mdev_list_lock);
> >> + return -EAGAIN;
> >> + }
> >
> > I'm not sure whether this is 100% watertight. Consider:
> >
> > - device gets registered, we have added it to the list, made it visible
> > in sysfs and have added the remove attribute, but not yet the symlinks
> > - userspace can access the remove attribute and trigger removal
> > - we do an early exit here because not yet active
> > - ???
> >
> > (If there's any problem, it's a very pathological case, and I don't
> > think anything really bad can happen. I just want to make sure we don't
> > miss anything.)
The presented scenario is exactly the use case that the -EAGAIN return
is intended to handle. I can't put a mutex on the mdev_device to block
this path as the mdev creation might ultimately fail and the device
released (perhaps not possible in our code flow, but that would be a
very subtle detail to rely on). So any sort of blocking approach would
require releasing mdev_list_lock and re-scanning in a busy loop. Why
bother to do that when we can indicate the same to the user through
-EAGAIN. AIUI, this is the purpose of -EAGAIN and it's up to userspace
to decide how they'd like to handle it, try again or abort. Are there
suggestions for alternatives? Thanks,
Alex
