On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 02:34:32PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17/10/2018 12:00, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 08:24:15PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> >> Since we are going to have 2 different preregistering helpers, let's
> >> make it clear that mm_iommu_new() is only for the normal (i.e. not device)
> >> memory and for existing areas mm_iommu_get() should be used instead.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru>
> > 
> > I think the idea is sensible.  However (and, yes, this is really an
> > existing bug) - shouldn't we check for a request to add anything
> > overlapping with an existing region, not just one that exactly
> > matches?
> 
> The overlap check is below the changed hunk:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_iommu.c#n150

Ah, right.

In that case can't you just drop this whole if.  I don't see that
there's any use in giving different error codes for "tried to register
exactly a region you registered before" and "tried to register a
region overlapping one you registered before.


> 
> 
> > 
> >> ---
> >>  arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_iommu.c | 3 +--
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_iommu.c 
> >> b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_iommu.c
> >> index a8c4a3c..839dbce 100644
> >> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_iommu.c
> >> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_iommu.c
> >> @@ -141,8 +141,7 @@ long mm_iommu_new(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long 
> >> ua, unsigned long entries,
> >>    list_for_each_entry_rcu(mem, &mm->context.iommu_group_mem_list,
> >>                    next) {
> >>            if ((mem->ua == ua) && (mem->entries == entries)) {
> >> -                  ++mem->used;
> >> -                  *pmem = mem;
> >> +                  ret = -EBUSY;
> >>                    goto unlock_exit;
> >>            }
> >>  
> > 
> 

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