Re: [PATCH v4 1/9] iov_iter: Handle compound highmem pages in copy_page_from_iter_atomic()

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On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 09:42:07PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 02:02:45PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > copy_page_from_iter_atomic() already handles !highmem compound
> > pages correctly, but if we are passed a highmem compound page,
> > each base page needs to be mapped & unmapped individually.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Yikes.  Does this want a fixes tag?

I was wondering the same thing.  I think the bug is merely latent,
and all existing users limit themselves to being within the page
that they're passing in.



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