iommufd: Move vevent memory allocation outside spinlock

The veventq memory allocation happens inside the spinlock. Given its depth
is decided by the user space, this leaves a vulnerability, where userspace
can allocate large queues to exhaust atomic memory reserves.

Move the allocation outside the spinlock and use GFP_NOWAIT, which can fail
fast under memory pressure without dipping into the GFP_ATOMIC reserves or
direct-reclaiming from the threaded IRQ handler. On allocation failure,
queue the lost_events_header (so userspace learns of the drop) and return
-ENOMEM so the caller learns of the kernel-side memory pressure.

This is intentionally distinct from the queue-overflow path, which also
queues the lost_events_header but returns 0: a full queue is an expected
userspace-pacing condition rather than a kernel error.

A subsequent change will cap the upper bound of the veventq_depth.

Fixes: e36ba5ab808e ("iommufd: Add IOMMUFD_OBJ_VEVENTQ and IOMMUFD_CMD_VEVENTQ_ALLOC")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/5ff36b5d80f7f6299f851be532a5195c1d2f1dae.1779408671.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/driver.c b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/driver.c
index 61e6b02601d1..3b8067976eac 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/driver.c
@@ -149,15 +149,18 @@ int iommufd_viommu_report_event(struct iommufd_viommu *viommu,
 		goto out_unlock_veventqs;
 	}
 
-	spin_lock(&veventq->common.lock);
-	if (veventq->num_events == veventq->depth) {
+	/* Pre-allocate to avoid GFP_ATOMIC; use GFP_NOWAIT to avoid sleeping */
+	vevent = kzalloc_flex(*vevent, event_data, data_len, GFP_NOWAIT);
+	if (!vevent) {
+		spin_lock(&veventq->common.lock);
 		vevent = &veventq->lost_events_header;
+		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out_set_header;
 	}
 
-	vevent = kzalloc_flex(*vevent, event_data, data_len, GFP_ATOMIC);
-	if (!vevent) {
-		rc = -ENOMEM;
+	spin_lock(&veventq->common.lock);
+	if (veventq->num_events == veventq->depth) {
+		kfree(vevent);
 		vevent = &veventq->lost_events_header;
 		goto out_set_header;
 	}