I think we should go for something simple like this instead: --- >From 4867e158ee86ebd801b4c267e8f8a4a762a71343 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 18:19:23 +0200 Subject: net: bypass ->sendpage for slab pages Sending Slab or tail pages into ->sendpage will cause really strange delayed oops. Prevent it right in the networking code instead of requiring drivers to work around the fact. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- net/socket.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index dbbe8ea7d395da..fbc82eb96d18ce 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -3638,7 +3638,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_getpeername); int kernel_sendpage(struct socket *sock, struct page *page, int offset, size_t size, int flags) { - if (sock->ops->sendpage) + /* + * sendpage does manipulates the refcount of the passed in page, which + * does not work for Slab pages, or for tails of non-__GFP_COMP + * high order pages. + */ + if (sock->ops->sendpage && !PageSlab(page) && page_count(page) > 0) return sock->ops->sendpage(sock, page, offset, size, flags); return sock_no_sendpage(sock, page, offset, size, flags); -- 2.28.0