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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>,
	Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	Felix.Kuehling@amd.com, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>,
	Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>,
	Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
	Philip Yang <Philip.Yang@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 hmm 09/12] mm/hmm: Poison hmm_range during unregister
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:17:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190615141726.GI17724@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190614004450.20252-10-jgg@ziepe.ca>

> -	/* Sanity check this really should not happen. */
> -	if (hmm == NULL || range->end <= range->start)
> -		return;
> -
>  	mutex_lock(&hmm->lock);
>  	list_del_rcu(&range->list);
>  	mutex_unlock(&hmm->lock);
>  
>  	/* Drop reference taken by hmm_range_register() */
> -	range->valid = false;
>  	mmput(hmm->mm);
>  	hmm_put(hmm);
> -	range->hmm = NULL;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * The range is now invalid and the ref on the hmm is dropped, so
> +         * poison the pointer.  Leave other fields in place, for the caller's
> +         * use.
> +         */
> +	range->valid = false;
> +	memset(&range->hmm, POISON_INUSE, sizeof(range->hmm));

Formatting seems to be messed up.  But again I don't see the value
in the poisoning, just let normal linked list debugging do its work.
The other cleanups looks fine to me.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-15 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-14  0:44 [PATCH v3 hmm 00/12] mm/hmm: Various revisions from a locking/code review Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-14  0:44 ` [PATCH v3 hmm 01/12] mm/hmm: fix use after free with struct hmm in the mmu notifiers Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-15 13:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  0:44 ` [PATCH v3 hmm 02/12] mm/hmm: Use hmm_mirror not mm as an argument for hmm_range_register Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-15 13:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-18 13:05     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-19  8:14       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  0:44 ` [PATCH v3 hmm 03/12] mm/hmm: Hold a mmgrab from hmm to mm Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-15 13:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  0:44 ` [PATCH v3 hmm 04/12] mm/hmm: Simplify hmm_get_or_create and make it reliable Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-15 14:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-18  0:36     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-18 18:55     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-14  0:44 ` [PATCH v3 hmm 05/12] mm/hmm: Remove duplicate condition test before wait_event_timeout Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-15 14:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  0:44 ` [PATCH v3 hmm 06/12] mm/hmm: Hold on to the mmget for the lifetime of the range Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-15 14:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-18 15:11     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-19  8:18       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-19 11:34         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-19 11:54           ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  0:44 ` [PATCH v3 hmm 07/12] mm/hmm: Use lockdep instead of comments Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-15 14:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  0:44 ` [PATCH v3 hmm 08/12] mm/hmm: Remove racy protection against double-unregistration Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-15 14:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-18 13:13     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-18 13:27       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-18 18:57         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-19  8:19           ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  0:44 ` [PATCH v3 hmm 09/12] mm/hmm: Poison hmm_range during unregister Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-15 14:17   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-06-18 18:04     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-14  0:44 ` [PATCH v3 hmm 10/12] mm/hmm: Do not use list*_rcu() for hmm->ranges Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-15 14:18   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-18  0:38     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-14  0:44 ` [PATCH v3 hmm 11/12] mm/hmm: Remove confusing comment and logic from hmm_release Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-15 14:21   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-18  0:45     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-18  5:37       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-19  0:53         ` Kuehling, Felix
2019-06-19  8:07           ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-19 11:56             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-19 12:03               ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  0:44 ` [PATCH v3 hmm 12/12] mm/hmm: Fix error flows in hmm_invalidate_range_start Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-15 14:25   ` Christoph Hellwig

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