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SubjectRe: Handling active DMA during a VFIO application crash
Hi Alex,

On Thu Feb 15, 2018 at 09:21:09AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:34:06 +0530
> Linu Cherian <linuc.decode@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Was exploring the implications of an application crash while DMA
> > is active from a vfio PCI device; the DMA being configured and
> > started by the application using vfio APIs.
> >
> > The expectation is that, DMA is stopped/reset before we tear down the IOMMU mappings
> > and finally free the mmapped pages(on which DMA is happening).
> >
> > From the below stack trace(with dump_stack in vfio_pci_release),
> > [ 201.564273] [<ffffff8008798b50>] vfio_pci_release+0x80/0x458
> > [ 201.564276] [<ffffff8008792b74>] vfio_device_fops_release+0x2c/0x50
> > [ 201.564279] [<ffffff8008269ef4>] __fput+0x9c/0x218
> > [ 201.564283] [<ffffff800826a0e8>] ____fput+0x20/0x30
> > [ 201.564286] [<ffffff80080e7fe0>] task_work_run+0xa0/0xc8
> > [ 201.564289] [<ffffff80080cbc7c>] do_exit+0x2bc/0x9c8
> > [ 201.564293] [<ffffff80080cd0ec>] do_group_exit+0x3c/0xa8
> > [ 201.564296] [<ffffff80080d94c4>] get_signal+0x3e4/0x538
> > [ 201.564299] [<ffffff80080892f0>] do_signal+0x70/0x660
> > [ 201.564302] [<ffffff8008089ce8>] do_notify_resume+0xe0/0x120
> >
> >
> > PCI device is disabled/reset from vfio_pci_release invoked as part of
> > device fd release. The fd releases are in turn invoked from exit_files
> > and exit_task_work.
> >
> > But exit_mm, gets called before exit_files/exit_task_work in do_exit.
> >
> > Assuming all pages allocated/mmaped to a process gets freed in exit_mm,
> > is there is a possibility that user pages configured for DMA can get freed
> > to kernel before the vfio device is stopped/reset ?
>
> Pages mapped through the IOMMU are still pinned, so they have an
> elevated reference count and I believe therefore cannot "get freed to
> kernel". Nothing should therefore be able to allocate those pages
> until the container is released, which happens even after the device is
> released. Thanks,
>
> Alex


Thanks for the clarification. I will dig through the code on this.

--
Linu cherian

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