Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/highmem: VM_BUG_ON() if offset + len > PAGE_SIZE

[Ira Weiny]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 03:47:38AM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On domenica 24 aprile 2022 12:48:06 CEST Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > Call VM_BUG_ON() if offset + len > PAGE_SIZE.
> > 
> > This is an RFC patch because I'm not sure if we actually need to 
> BUG_ON(),
> 
> Actually I considered VM_BUG_ON() for consistency with the other functions 
> in highmem.h
> 
> What about VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() here and also in memset_page?

For consistency leave this as a VM_BUG_ON[1]

I've been down a similar path[2] and there was a long discussion about it.[3]

In the end we settled on VM_BUG_ON.[4]

As to the addition of flush_dcache_page().  There was a discussion here.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiKac4t-fOP_3fAf7nETfFLhT3ShmRmBq2J96y6jAr56Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Ira

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210209205249.GB2975576@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201209022250.GP1563847@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201208213255.GO1563847@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210210174928.3156073-1-ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx/

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Fabio
> 
> > so I'd like to know what Maintainers and other developers think about 
> this
> > proposal.
> > 
> > Please note that memset_page() uses VM_BUG_ON() to prevent the same 
> issue.
> > 
> > Furthermore, I also cannot understand why memset_page() does not call
> > flush_dcache_page() after memset() but I suppose that the different
> > implementations of these two functions should be addressed in another 
> RFC.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/highmem.h | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
> > index c3d562b5f0c1..bdb16d5f8148 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/highmem.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
> > @@ -349,6 +349,8 @@ static inline void memcpy_to_page(struct page *page, 
> size_t offset,
> >  static inline void memzero_page(struct page *page, size_t offset, size_t 
> len)
> >  {
> >  	char *addr = kmap_local_page(page);
> > +
> > +	VM_BUG_ON(offset + len > PAGE_SIZE);
> >  	memset(addr + offset, 0, len);
> >  	flush_dcache_page(page);
> >  	kunmap_local(addr);
> > -- 
> > 2.34.1
> > 
> > 
> 
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