While reviewing Baoquan's recent changes to permit vread() access to vm_map_ram regions of vmalloc allocations, Willy pointed out [1] that it would be nice to refactor vread() as a whole, since its only user is read_kcore() and the existing form of vread() necessitates the use of a bounce buffer. This patch series does exactly that, as well as adjusting how we read the kernel text section to avoid the use of a bounce buffer in this case as well. This has been tested against the test case which motivated Baoquan's changes in the first place [2] which continues to function correctly, as do the vmalloc self tests. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y8WfDSRkc%2FOHP3oD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87ilk6gos2.fsf@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u v3: - Revert introduction of mutex/rwsem in vmalloc - Introduce copy_page_to_iter_atomic() iovec function - Update vread_iter() and descendent functions to use only this - Fault in user pages before calling vread_iter() - Use const char* in vread_iter() and descendent functions - Updated commit messages based on feedback - Extend vread functions to always check how many bytes we could copy. If at any stage we are unable to copy/zero, abort and return the number of bytes we did copy. v2: - Fix ordering of vread_iter() parameters - Fix nommu vread() -> vread_iter() https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1679209395.git.lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx/ v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1679183626.git.lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx/ Lorenzo Stoakes (4): fs/proc/kcore: Avoid bounce buffer for ktext data fs/proc/kcore: convert read_kcore() to read_kcore_iter() iov_iter: add copy_page_to_iter_atomic() mm: vmalloc: convert vread() to vread_iter() fs/proc/kcore.c | 89 ++++++--------- include/linux/uio.h | 2 + include/linux/vmalloc.h | 3 +- lib/iov_iter.c | 28 +++++ mm/nommu.c | 10 +- mm/vmalloc.c | 234 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 6 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 148 deletions(-) -- 2.39.2
