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Mikhail Gavrilov ccf9e35ed6 drm/amdgpu: copy debugfs register data outside the GRBM/SRBM locks
Reading or writing a register through the amdgpu_regs2 debugfs file
with GRBM bank selection, which umr does for every banked access (a
single "umr -b x x x -r <reg>" is enough, as is the wave dump with
"-O halt_waves"), makes lockdep report a circular locking dependency,
after which lockdep stays off until reboot:

  WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
  umr/63306 is trying to acquire lock:
  ffff8882cf4b8350 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{4:4}, at: __might_fault+0x9b/0x140
  but task is already holding lock:
  ffff8881aec010d0 (&amdgpu_grbm_lock_key){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: amdgpu_debugfs_regs2_op.isra.0+0x20d/0xd00 [amdgpu]
  ...
  Chain exists of:
    &mm->mmap_lock --> &amdgpu_srbm_lock_key --> &amdgpu_grbm_lock_key
  ...
   __might_fault+0xc5/0x140
   amdgpu_debugfs_regs2_op.isra.0+0x441/0xd00 [amdgpu]
   full_proxy_write+0x10e/0x1d0
   vfs_write+0x1d0/0xf50
   ksys_write+0x116/0x250

amdgpu_debugfs_regs2_op() and amdgpu_debugfs_process_reg_op() call
get_user()/put_user() for every dword while holding grbm_idx_mutex or
srbm_mutex, and pm.mutex if requested, so a fault there takes mmap_lock
inside those locks. The lock hierarchy in amdgpu_lockdep.c puts
srbm_mutex and grbm_idx_mutex below notifier_lock, which
amdgpu_cs_submit() takes with the BO reservations held, and
dma_resv_lockdep() orders the reservations inside mmap_lock. So
mmap_lock is outside grbm_idx_mutex and srbm_mutex, and these two
debugfs paths nest it the other way round. The copies under the locks
are as old as the bank selection in both files; commit 1d0f5838b1
("drm/amdgpu: Add lockdep annotations for lock ordering validation")
only made them visible to lockdep.

Copy the user buffer in before any of the locks is taken and the result
out after all of them are dropped, as amdgpu_debugfs_wave_read(),
amdgpu_debugfs_gpr_read() and amdgpu_debugfs_gprwave_read() already do.
The buffer is sized by the count passed to read() or write(), so an
access larger than PAGE_SIZE is now rejected with -EINVAL; umr reads and
writes one register at a time. A fault on the user buffer of a write now
fails with -EFAULT before any register is written, instead of after a
partial write.

Fixes: 5662815950 ("drm/amd/amdgpu: Add bank selection for MMIO debugfs (v3)")
Fixes: 37df9560cd ("drm/amd/amdgpu: New debugfs interface for MMIO registers (v5)")
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Acked-by: Tom St Denis <tom.stdenis@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Prosyak <vitaly.prosyak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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============

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-----------

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