On 8/16/20 12:08 AM, Coly Li wrote: > The original problem was from nvme-over-tcp code, who mistakenly uses > kernel_sendpage() to send pages allocated by __get_free_pages() without > __GFP_COMP flag. Such pages don't have refcount (page_count is 0) on > tail pages, sending them by kernel_sendpage() may trigger a kernel panic > from a corrupted kernel heap, because these pages are incorrectly freed > in network stack as page_count 0 pages. > > This patch introduces a helper sendpage_ok(), it returns true if the > checking page, > - is not slab page: PageSlab(page) is false. > - has page refcount: page_count(page) is not zero > > All drivers who want to send page to remote end by kernel_sendpage() > may use this helper to check whether the page is OK. If the helper does > not return true, the driver should try other non sendpage method (e.g. > sock_no_sendpage()) to handle the page. > > > > diff --git a/include/linux/net.h b/include/linux/net.h > index d48ff1180879..a807fad31958 100644 > --- a/include/linux/net.h > +++ b/include/linux/net.h > @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ > #include <linux/rcupdate.h> > #include <linux/once.h> > #include <linux/fs.h> > +#include <linux/mm.h> > #include <linux/sockptr.h> > > #include <uapi/linux/net.h> > @@ -286,6 +287,21 @@ do { \ > #define net_get_random_once_wait(buf, nbytes) \ > get_random_once_wait((buf), (nbytes)) > > +/* > + * E.g. XFS meta- & log-data is in slab pages, or bcache meta > + * data pages, or other high order pages allocated by > + * __get_free_pages() without __GFP_COMP, which have a page_count > + * of 0 and/or have PageSlab() set. We cannot use send_page for > + * those, as that does get_page(); put_page(); and would cause > + * either a VM_BUG directly, or __page_cache_release a page that > + * would actually still be referenced by someone, leading to some > + * obscure delayed Oops somewhere else. > + */ > +static inline bool sendpage_ok(struct page *page) > +{ > + return (!PageSlab(page) && page_count(page) >= 1); > +} > return (A); Can simply be written : return A; In this case : return !PageSlab(page) && page_count(page) >= 1; BTW, do you have plans to refine code added with commit a10674bf2406afc2554f9c7d31b2dc65d6a27fd9 ("tcp: detecting the misuse of .sendpage for Slab objects")