Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] iommufd: Deliver fault messages to user space

[Baolu Lu]

On 12/8/23 1:17 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 05:34:10PM +0100, Joel Granados wrote:
> > > @@ -58,6 +255,8 @@ static void hw_pagetable_fault_free(struct hw_pgtable_fault *fault)
> > >   	WARN_ON(!list_empty(&fault->deliver));
> > >   	WARN_ON(!list_empty(&fault->response));
> > >   
> > > +	fput(fault->fault_file);
> > > +	put_unused_fd(fault->fault_fd);
> > I have resolved this in a naive way by just not calling the
> > put_unused_fd function.
> That is correct.
>
> put_unused_fd() should only be called on error paths prior to the
> syscall return.
>
> The design of a FD must follow this pattern
>
>   syscall():
>     fdno = get_unused_fd_flags(O_CLOEXEC);
>     filep = [..]
>   
>     // syscall MUST succeed after this statement:
>     fd_install(fdno, filep);
>     return 0;
>
>    err:
>      put_unused_fd(fdno)
>      return -ERRNO

Yes. Agreed.

> Also the refcounting looks a little strange, the filep reference is
> consumed by fd_install, so what is that fput pairing with in fault_free?

fput() pairs with get_unused_fd_flags()? fd_install() does not seem to
increase any reference.

Best regards,
baolu