As it says in the updated comment in gup.c: current FOLL_LONGTERM
behavior is incompatible with FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY because of the
FS DAX check requirement on vmas.

However, the corresponding restriction in get_user_pages_remote() was
slightly stricter than is actually required: it forbade all
FOLL_LONGTERM callers, but we can actually allow FOLL_LONGTERM callers
that do not set the "locked" arg.

Update the code and comments accordingly, and update the VFIO caller
to take advantage of this, fixing a bug as a result: the VFIO caller
is logically a FOLL_LONGTERM user.

Thanks to Jason Gunthorpe for pointing out a clean way to fix this.

Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <j...@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jgli...@redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.we...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubb...@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 30 +++++++++++++-----------------
 mm/gup.c                        | 13 ++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
index d864277ea16f..017689b7c32b 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
@@ -348,24 +348,20 @@ static int vaddr_get_pfn(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned 
long vaddr,
                flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
 
        down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-       if (mm == current->mm) {
-               ret = get_user_pages(vaddr, 1, flags | FOLL_LONGTERM, page,
-                                    vmas);
-       } else {
-               ret = get_user_pages_remote(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, flags, page,
-                                           vmas, NULL);
-               /*
-                * The lifetime of a vaddr_get_pfn() page pin is
-                * userspace-controlled. In the fs-dax case this could
-                * lead to indefinite stalls in filesystem operations.
-                * Disallow attempts to pin fs-dax pages via this
-                * interface.
-                */
-               if (ret > 0 && vma_is_fsdax(vmas[0])) {
-                       ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
-                       put_page(page[0]);
-               }
+       ret = get_user_pages_remote(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, flags | FOLL_LONGTERM,
+                                   page, vmas, NULL);
+       /*
+        * The lifetime of a vaddr_get_pfn() page pin is
+        * userspace-controlled. In the fs-dax case this could
+        * lead to indefinite stalls in filesystem operations.
+        * Disallow attempts to pin fs-dax pages via this
+        * interface.
+        */
+       if (ret > 0 && vma_is_fsdax(vmas[0])) {
+               ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+               put_page(page[0]);
        }
+
        up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 
        if (ret == 1) {
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 933524de6249..cfe6dc5fc343 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -1167,13 +1167,16 @@ long get_user_pages_remote(struct task_struct *tsk, 
struct mm_struct *mm,
                struct vm_area_struct **vmas, int *locked)
 {
        /*
-        * FIXME: Current FOLL_LONGTERM behavior is incompatible with
+        * Current FOLL_LONGTERM behavior is incompatible with
         * FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY because of the FS DAX check requirement on
-        * vmas.  As there are no users of this flag in this call we simply
-        * disallow this option for now.
+        * vmas. However, this only comes up if locked is set, and there are
+        * callers that do request FOLL_LONGTERM, but do not set locked. So,
+        * allow what we can.
         */
-       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gup_flags & FOLL_LONGTERM))
-               return -EINVAL;
+       if (gup_flags & FOLL_LONGTERM) {
+               if (WARN_ON_ONCE(locked))
+                       return -EINVAL;
+       }
 
        return __get_user_pages_locked(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages, pages, vmas,
                                       locked,
-- 
2.24.0

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