Em Sun, 11 Oct 2020 08:27:41 +0200 Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab+huawei@kernel.org escreveu:
Em Sat, 10 Oct 2020 23:50:27 +0200 Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch escreveu:
On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 11:36 PM Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com wrote:
We probably still have a few legacy drivers using videobuf (non-2), but IMHO those should be safe to put behind some disabled-by-default Kconfig symbol or even completely drop, as the legacy framework has been deprecated for many years already.
There's 8 drivers left, and they support a very large number of devices. I expect unhappy users distros stop shipping them. On the other hand, videobuf has been deprecated for a loooooooong time, so there has been plenty of time to convert the remaining drivers to videobuf2. If nobody can do it, then we'll have to drop support for these devices given the security issues.
Again, the issue here is _only_ with follow_pfn. For videobuf1 this means videbuf-dma-contig.c userptr support is broken. Unlike videobuf2 it means it's broken for all usage (not just zero-copy userptr), because videbuf-dma-contig.c lacks the pin_user_pages path.
Well, follow_pfn() is used only by videbuf-dma-contig.c. If this is the only part of VB1 that will have userptr broken, then there's just one driver that might be affected: davinci.
Yet, taking a deeper look:
$ git grep include drivers/media/platform/davinci/|grep -i videobuf drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpif_capture.h:#include <media/videobuf2-dma-contig.h> drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpif_display.h:#include <media/videobuf2-dma-contig.h>
It sounds to me that it was already converted to VB2, but some VB1 symbols were not converted at its Kconfig.
It sounds to me that there are other drivers with some VB1 left overs at Kconfig, as those are the only ones using VB1 those days:
$ for i in $(git grep media/videobuf drivers |grep -v videobuf2 |grep -v v4l2-core|cut -d: -f1); do dirname $i; done|sort|uniq drivers/media/pci/bt8xx drivers/media/pci/cx18 drivers/media/platform drivers/media/usb/tm6000 drivers/media/usb/zr364xx drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci
This is incomplete. There are two drivers that include videobuf indirectly:
include/media/davinci/vpfe_capture.h include/media/drv-intf/saa7146_vv.h
I double-checked that DaVinci still uses VB1. There are actually two clients for videbuf-dma-contig.c: davinci and fsl-viu.
Those two will be affected, if we don't add pin_user_pages_fast() support to VB1 or convert them to VB2.
But that would be easy to add if this poses a problem I think - we just need to carry over the pin_user_pages_fast logic from videbuf2, no driver changes required. But of course I don't think we should do that before someone reports the regression, since videobuf1 userptr is doubly deprecated :-)
I think otherwise. Keeping a broken component at the Kernel is a bad idea.
Yet, from my quick search above, it sounds to me that it is time for us to retire the VB1 DMA contig support as a hole, as there's no client for it anymore.
I'll work on some patches cleaning up the VB1 left overs at Kconfig and removing videbuf-dma-contig.c for good, if there's no hidden dependency on it.
Thanks, Mauro
Thanks, Mauro