This code was using get_user_pages*(), in approximately a "Case 5" scenario (accessing the data within a page), using the categorization from [1]. That means that it's time to convert the get_user_pages*() + put_page() calls to pin_user_pages*() + unpin_user_pages() calls. There is some helpful background in [2]: basically, this is a small part of fixing a long-standing disconnect between pinning pages, and file systems' use of those pages. [1] Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst [2] "Explicit pinning of user-space pages": https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/ Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index 21a59b598ed8..596132a96cd5 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -1762,15 +1762,14 @@ static int set_bit_to_user(int nr, void __user *addr) int bit = nr + (log % PAGE_SIZE) * 8; int r; - r = get_user_pages_fast(log, 1, FOLL_WRITE, &page); + r = pin_user_pages_fast(log, 1, FOLL_WRITE, &page); if (r < 0) return r; BUG_ON(r != 1); base = kmap_atomic(page); set_bit(bit, base); kunmap_atomic(base); - set_page_dirty_lock(page); - put_page(page); + unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(&page, 1, true); return 0; } -- 2.26.2