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SubjectRe: [RFC] revoke(2) and generic handling of things like remove_proc_entry()
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 05:29:32AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 4) nasty semantics issue - mmap() vs. revoke (of any sort, including
> remove_proc_entry(), etc.). Suppose a revokable file had been mmapped;
> now it's going away. What should we do to its VMAs? Right now sysfs
> and procfs get away with that, but only because there's only one thing
> that has ->mmap() there - /proc/bus/pci and sysfs equivalents. I've
> no idea how does pci_mmap_page_range() interact with PCI hotplug (and
> I'm not at all sure that whatever it does isn't racy wrt device removal),
> but I suspect that it strongly depends on lack of ->fault() for those
> VMAs, which makes killing all PTEs pointing to pages in question enough.
> How generic do we want to make it? Anybody wanting to add more files
> that could be mmapped in procfs/sysfs/debugfs deserves to be hurt, but
> if we start playing with revoke(2), restriction might become inconvenient.
> I'm not sure what kind of behaviour do we want there - *BSD at least
> used to have revoke(2) only for character devices that had no mmap()...

Actually, after looking at what sysfs does... We might get away with
the following
* new vma flag - VM_REVOKABLE; set by mmap() if ->f_revoke is
non-NULL. We are short on spare bits there, but there still are some...
* start_using_vma(vma) that checks the presence of that flag,
returns true if it's absent and __start_using(vma->vm_file->f_revoke)
otherwise; a matching stop_using_vma(vma) as well.
* surround vma method calls with start_using_vma/stop_using_vma,
similar to file ones. Do what fs/sysfs/bin.c wrappers do for revoked
ones - VM_FAULT_SIGBUS for ->fault() and ->page_mkwrite(), -EINVAL for
->access() and ->set_policy(), vma->vm_policy for ->get_policy(),
0 for ->migrate(), "do nothing" for ->open() (and I'm not at all sure that
this one is correct), hell knows what for ->close(). Note that the *only*
instance with ->open and without ->close is sysfs pile of wrappers itself...

Hell knows... We have few enough call sites for ->vm_op->foo() to make
it feasible and overhead would be trivial. OTOH, I'm not sure what's the
right behaviour for mmap of something like drm after revoke(2) - leaving
writable pages there looks wrong...

BTW, snd_card_disconnect() doesn't do anything to existing mappings; smells
like a bug, and there we do have ones with non-trivial ->mmap(). Could
ALSA folks comment?

One note about the mockup implementation upthread - __release_revoke() should
suck in a bit more than just ->release() - turning fasync off should also go
there.


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