From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S938927AbcLVMUv (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2016 07:20:51 -0500 Received: from hqemgate14.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.143]:3944 "EHLO hqemgate14.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932680AbcLVMUt (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2016 07:20:49 -0500 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by hqnvupgp07.nvidia.com on Wed, 21 Dec 2016 16:17:49 -0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfio iommu type1: fix the testing of capability for remote task To: Jike Song , , References: <1482336616-19252-1-git-send-email-jike.song@intel.com> <1482336616-19252-3-git-send-email-jike.song@intel.com> CC: , , , X-Nvconfidentiality: public From: Kirti Wankhede Message-ID: <6beee519-15f3-1d4d-5ea7-20fa6ba56d1c@nvidia.com> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 17:50:37 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1482336616-19252-3-git-send-email-jike.song@intel.com> X-Originating-IP: [10.24.216.210] X-ClientProxiedBy: DRUKMAIL102.nvidia.com (10.25.59.20) To bgmail102.nvidia.com (10.25.59.11) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/21/2016 9:40 PM, Jike Song wrote: > Before the mdev enhancement type1 iommu used capable() to test the > capability of current task; in the course of mdev development a > new requirement, testing for another task other than current, was > raised. ns_capable() was used for this purpose, however it still > tests current, the only difference is, in a specified namespace. > > Fix it by using has_capability() instead, which tests the cap for > specified task in init_user_ns, the same namespace as capable(). > > Cc: Alex Williamson > Cc: Kirti Wankhede > Cc: Gerd Hoffmann > Signed-off-by: Jike Song > --- > drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 6 ++---- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c > index f3726ba..b54aedf 100644 > --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c > +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c > @@ -394,8 +394,7 @@ static long vfio_pin_pages_remote(struct vfio_dma *dma, unsigned long vaddr, > long npage, unsigned long *pfn_base) > { > unsigned long limit; > - bool lock_cap = ns_capable(task_active_pid_ns(dma->task)->user_ns, > - CAP_IPC_LOCK); > + bool lock_cap = has_capability(dma->task, CAP_IPC_LOCK); Hi Jike, Alex's patch already changes this to capable(), you need to resolve. https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/20/490 You need to do only below change, which looks fine to me. > struct mm_struct *mm; > long ret, i = 0, lock_acct = 0; > bool rsvd; > @@ -491,8 +490,7 @@ static int vfio_pin_page_external(struct vfio_dma *dma, unsigned long vaddr, > unsigned long *pfn_base, bool do_accounting) > { > unsigned long limit; > - bool lock_cap = ns_capable(task_active_pid_ns(dma->task)->user_ns, > - CAP_IPC_LOCK); > + bool lock_cap = has_capability(dma->task, CAP_IPC_LOCK); > struct mm_struct *mm; > int ret; > bool rsvd; > Thanks, Kirti