FAILED: patch "[PATCH] drm/i915/userptr: Try to acquire the page lock around" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 2d691aeca4aecbb8d0414a777a46981a8e142b05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:32:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915/userptr: Try to acquire the page lock around
set_page_dirty()

set_page_dirty says:

For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases, but should be better not to.

Under those rules, it is only safe for us to use the plain set_page_dirty calls for shmemfs/anonymous memory. Userptr may be used with real mappings and so needs to use the locked version (set_page_dirty_lock).

However, following a try_to_unmap() we may want to remove the userptr and so call put_pages(). However, try_to_unmap() acquires the page lock and so we must avoid recursively locking the pages ourselves -- which means that we cannot safely acquire the lock around set_page_dirty(). Since we can't be sure of the lock, we have to risk skip dirtying the page, or else risk calling set_page_dirty() without a lock and so risk fs corruption.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203317
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112012

References: cb6d7c7dc7ff ("drm/i915/userptr: Acquire the page lock around set_page_dirty()")
References: 505a8ec7e11a ("Revert "drm/i915/userptr: Acquire the page lock around set_page_dirty()"")
References: 6dcc693bc57f ("ext4: warn when page is dirtied without buffers")

index 6b3b50f0f6d9..abfbac49b8e8 100644
@@ -671,8 +671,28 @@ i915_gem_userptr_put_pages(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
 		obj->mm.dirty = false;
 
 	for_each_sgt_page(page, sgt_iter, pages) {
-		if (obj->mm.dirty)
+		if (obj->mm.dirty && trylock_page(page)) {
+			/*
+			 * As this may not be anonymous memory (e.g. shmem)
+			 * but exist on a real mapping, we have to lock
+			 * the page in order to dirty it -- holding
+			 * the page reference is not sufficient to
+			 * prevent the inode from being truncated.
+			 * Play safe and take the lock.
+			 *
+			 * However...!
+			 *
+			 * The mmu-notifier can be invalidated for a
+			 * migrate_page, that is alreadying holding the lock
+			 * on the page. Such a try_to_unmap() will result
+			 * in us calling put_pages() and so recursively try
+			 * to lock the page. We avoid that deadlock with
+			 * a trylock_page() and in exchange we risk missing
+			 * some page dirtying.
+			 */
 			set_page_dirty(page);
+			unlock_page(page);
+		}
 
 		mark_page_accessed(page);
 		put_page(page);