drm/i915: Keep gem ctx->vm alive until the final put
authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Thu, 2 Sep 2021 14:20:49 +0000 (16:20 +0200)
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Mon, 6 Sep 2021 08:45:48 +0000 (10:45 +0200)
commit8cf97637ff8891be040bac37b96dd97e5996ca93
tree9f8a6f4c73b6981176db8f2122ff9ceb46b24d10
parentc238980efd3b35af70fc926066cf7440f50a97a9
drm/i915: Keep gem ctx->vm alive until the final put

The comment added in

    commit b81dde719439c8f09bb61e742ed95bfc4b33946b
    Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Date:   Tue May 21 22:11:29 2019 +0100

        drm/i915: Allow userspace to clone contexts on creation

and moved in

    commit 27dbae8f36c1c25008b7885fc07c57054b7dfba3
    Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Date:   Wed Nov 6 09:13:12 2019 +0000

        drm/i915/gem: Safely acquire the ctx->vm when copying

suggested that i915_address_space were at least intended to be managed
through SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU:

                * This ppgtt may have be reallocated between
                * the read and the kref, and reassigned to a third
                * context. In order to avoid inadvertent sharing
                * of this ppgtt with that third context (and not
                * src), we have to confirm that we have the same
                * ppgtt after passing through the strong memory
                * barrier implied by a successful
                * kref_get_unless_zero().

But extensive git history search has not brough any such reuse to
light.

What has come to light though is that ever since

commit 2850748ef8763ab46958e43a4d1c445f29eeb37d
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Fri Oct 4 14:39:58 2019 +0100

    drm/i915: Pull i915_vma_pin under the vm->mutex

(yes this commit is earlier) the final i915_vma_put call has been
moved from i915_gem_context_free (now called _release) to
context_close, which means it's not actually safe anymore to access
the ctx->vm pointer without lock helds, because it might disappear at
any moment. Note that superficially things all still work, because the
i915_address_space is RCU protected since

    commit b32fa811156328aea5a3c2ff05cc096490382456
    Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Date:   Thu Jun 20 19:37:05 2019 +0100

        drm/i915/gtt: Defer address space cleanup to an RCU worker

except the very clever macro above (which is designed to protected
against object reuse due to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU or similar tricks)
results in an endless loop if the refcount of the ctx->vm ever
permanently drops to 0. Which it totally now can.

Fix that by moving the final i915_vm_put to where it should be.

Note that i915_gem_context is rcu protected, but _only_ the final
kfree. This means anyone who chases a pointer to a gem ctx solely
under the protection can pretty only call kref_get_unless_zero(). This
seems to be pretty much the case, aside from a bunch of cases that
consult the scheduling information without any further protection.

Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Thomas Hellström" <thomas.hellstrom@intel.com>
Cc: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Fixes: 2850748ef876 ("drm/i915: Pull i915_vma_pin under the vm->mutex")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210902142057.929669-3-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c