v4l2: don't fall back to follow_pfn() if pin_user_pages_fast() fails
The V4L2_MEMORY_USERPTR interface is long deprecated and shouldn't be used (and is discouraged for any modern v4l drivers). And Seth Jenkins points out that the fallback to VM_PFNMAP/VM_IO is fundamentally racy and dangerous. Note that it's not even a case that should trigger, since any normal user pointer logic ends up just using the pin_user_pages_fast() call that does the proper page reference counting. That's not the problem case, only if you try to use special device mappings do you have any issues. Normally I'd just remove this during the merge window, but since Seth pointed out the problem cases, we really want to know as soon as possible if there are actually any users of this odd special case of a legacy interface. Neither Hans nor Mauro seem to think that such mis-uses of the old legacy interface should exist. As Mauro says: "See, V4L2 has actually 4 streaming APIs: - Kernel-allocated mmap (usually referred simply as just mmap); - USERPTR mmap; - read(); - dmabuf; The USERPTR is one of the oldest way to use it, coming from V4L version 1 times, and by far the least used one" And Hans chimed in on the USERPTR interface: "To be honest, I wouldn't mind if it goes away completely, but that's a bit of a pipe dream right now" but while removing this legacy interface entirely may be a pipe dream we can at least try to remove the unlikely (and actively broken) case of using special device mappings for USERPTR accesses. This replaces it with a WARN_ONCE() that we can remove once we've hopefully confirmed that no actual users exist. NOTE! Longer term, this means that a 'struct frame_vector' only ever contains proper page pointers, and all the games we have with converting them to pages can go away (grep for 'frame_vector_to_pages()' and the uses of 'vec->is_pfns'). But this is just the first step, to verify that this code really is all dead, and do so as quickly as possible. Reported-by: Seth Jenkins <sethjenkins@google.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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