Re: [PATCH] iov_iter: call kmap on each page even for lowmem if CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP is enabled

From: Barry Song
Date: Sat Mar 02 2024 - 03:28:31 EST


On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 5:32 PM Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.orgau> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 12:09:08PM +1300, Barry Song wrote:
> > From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > copy_page_from_iter_atomic() has the assumption lowmem will only
> > need one kmap to get start page_address() for all pages. This is
> > wrong if the debug option CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP is
> > enabled. This patch fixes it in the same way with skbuff.h by
> > always applying kmap one by one even for lowmem,
> >
> > static inline bool skb_frag_must_loop(struct page *p)
> > {
> > #if defined(CONFIG_HIGHMEM)
> > if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP) || PageHighMem(p))
> > return true;
> > #endif
> > return false;
> > }
>
> Thanks for the patch. Perhaps this could be moved into highmem.h
> as a helper (kmap_is_highmem)?

makes sense. OTOH, is skb_frag_must_loop even correct as
DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP
is for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems.

config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP
bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP
select KMAP_LOCAL
select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL
help
This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local
mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems.
Disable this for production systems!

And highmem.c also shows it doesn't depend on CONFIG_HIGHMEM at all,

void *__kmap_local_page_prot(struct page *page, pgprot_t prot)
{
void *kmap;
/*
* To broaden the usage of the actual kmap_local() machinery always map
* pages when debugging is enabled and the architecture has no problems
* with alias mappings.
*/
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP) &&
!PageHighMem(page))
return page_address(page);
...
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmap_local_page_prot);


but skb_frag_must_loop is checking it under if defined(CONFIG_HIGHMEM).
so I guess it is wrong too. Never has a bug been reported. Probably that is
because nobody is really using CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP,
I guess :-)

I think the correct skb_frag_must_loop() should be

static inline bool skb_frag_must_loop(struct page *p)
{
return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP) || PageHighMem(p);
}

Thus, kmap_is_highmem() can entirely replace it :-)

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Thanks
Barry