Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: pagemap: limit scan to virtual region being asked

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On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 01:08:40 +0000 Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 05:57:04PM +0530, Shiraz Hashim wrote:
> > pagemap_read scans through the virtual address space of a
> > task till it prepares 'count' pagemaps or it reaches end
> > of task.
> > 
> > This presents a problem when the page walk doesn't happen
> > for vma with VM_PFNMAP set. In which case walk is silently
> > skipped and no pagemap is prepare, in turn making
> > pagemap_read to scan through task end, even crossing beyond
> > 'count', landing into a different vma region. This leads to
> > wrong presentation of mappings for that vma.
> > 
> > Fix this by limiting end_vaddr to the end of the virtual
> > address region being scanned.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Shiraz Hashim <shashim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch works in some case, but there still seems a problem in another case.
> 
> Consider that we have two vmas within some narrow (PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE) region.
> One vma in lower address is VM_PFNMAP, and the other vma in higher address is not.
> Then a single call of walk_page_range() skips the first vma and scans the
> second vma, but the pagemap record of the second vma will be stored on the
> wrong offset in the buffer, because we just skip vma(VM_PFNMAP) without calling
> any callbacks (within which add_to_pagemap() increments pm.pos).
> 
> So calling pte_hole() for vma(VM_PFNMAP) looks a better fix to me.
> 

Can we get this finished off?  ASAP, please.

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