vfio-pci: Avoid recursive read-lock usage

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A down_read on memory_lock is held when performing read/write accesses
to MMIO BAR space, including across the copy_to/from_user() callouts
which may fault.  If the user buffer for these copies resides in an
mmap of device MMIO space, the mmap fault handler will acquire a
recursive read-lock on memory_lock.  Avoid this by reducing the lock
granularity.  Sequential accesses requiring multiple ioread/iowrite
cycles are expected to be rare, therefore typical accesses should not
see additional overhead.

VGA MMIO accesses are expected to be non-fatal regardless of the PCI
memory enable bit to allow legacy probing, this behavior remains with
a comment added.  ioeventfds are now included in memory access testing,
with writes dropped while memory space is disabled.

Fixes: abafbc551f ("vfio-pci: Invalidate mmaps and block MMIO access on disabled memory")
Reported-by: Zhiyi Guo <zhguo@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Zhiyi Guo <zhguo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>

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Alex Williamson 2020-08-17 11:08:18 -06:00

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drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h

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drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_rdwr.c

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