From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Yuanhe Shu <xiangzao@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: joro@8bytes.org, will@kernel.org, robin.murphy@arm.com,
baolu.lu@linux.intel.com, kevin.tian@intel.com,
smostafa@google.com, praan@google.com, skhawaja@google.com,
iommu@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] iommupt: Drop pagealloc references during domain deinit
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:18:28 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260827161828.GA3769797@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260827145855.1616223-3-xiangzao@linux.alibaba.com>
On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 10:58:55PM +0800, Yuanhe Shu wrote:
> Since commit b948a8722848 ("iommu: Fix up map/unmap debugging for
> iommupt domains") iommu_map() takes an IOMMU_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC reference
> for every page it maps into a generic_pt domain, and those references
> are only dropped by the IOVA based unmap path. When a domain is freed
> while mappings are still installed, pt_iommu_deinit() releases the page
> table memory without dropping them, so every mapped page stays counted
> as IOMMU-mapped after it returns to the buddy allocator and each later
> allocation or free of it reports:
>
> WARNING: drivers/iommu/iommu-debug-pagealloc.c:91 at __iommu_debug_check_unmapped+0x4e/0x70, CPU#0: init/1
> iommu: Detected page leak!
>
> Freeing a domain with mappings still installed is not driver misuse:
> the deinit contract in include/linux/generic_pt/iommu.h only requires
> the table to be removed from HW access and caches, with no requirement
> to unmap first, and the kunit suite itself frees domains with live
> mappings in pt_kunit_iommu_exit().
It is not misusing iommupt, but it is definitely misusing any iommu
API built on top of it. How did you trigger this?
> Verified with the generic_pt kunit suite as an in-tree reproducer:
> running the x86_64 format's test_pgsize_boundary() with
If this is the only trigger, then it is different testing things
interacting badly and I don't think it should be fixed like this.
Probably have the kunits directly unmap as they were being lazy
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-27 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-27 14:58 [PATCH 0/2] iommu: Drop IOMMU_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC refs on iommupt domain teardown Yuanhe Shu
2026-08-27 14:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] iommu: Add __iommu_debug_unmap_phys() to drop refs by physical address Yuanhe Shu
2026-08-27 16:13 ` Mostafa Saleh
2026-08-27 16:17 ` Mostafa Saleh
2026-08-27 16:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-27 14:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] iommupt: Drop pagealloc references during domain deinit Yuanhe Shu
2026-08-27 16:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2026-08-27 16:05 ` [PATCH 0/2] iommu: Drop IOMMU_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC refs on iommupt domain teardown Mostafa Saleh
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