Re: [PATCH v4] Revert "f2fs crypto: avoid unneeded memory allocation in ->readdir"

[Chao Yu]

On 2018/3/1 10:50, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> On 02/28, Chao Yu wrote:
>> Hi Jaegeuk,
>>
>> On 2018/2/28 13:48, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
>>> Hi Yunlong,
>>>
>>> As Eric pointed out, how do you think using nohighmem for directory likewise
>>
>> I'd like to ask, at the beginning, why we choose to use highmem for dentry page?
>> any history reason there?
> 
> There was no huge preference on it based on performance. I just wanted not to
> abuse lowmem.

Got you, thanks for explanation.

Thanks,

> 
> Thanks,
> 
>>
>>> ext4, which looks like more efficient? Actually, we don't need to do this in
>>> most of recent kernels, right?
>>
>> It's OK to me to keep a line with ext4.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> On 02/28, Yunlong Song wrote:
>>>> This reverts commit e06f86e61d7a67fe6e826010f57aa39c674f4b1b.
>>>>
>>>> Conflicts:
>>>> 	fs/f2fs/dir.c
>>>>
>>>> In some platforms (such as arm), high memory is used, then the
>>>> decrypting filename will cause panic, the reason see commit
>>>> 569cf1876a32e574ba8a7fb825cd91bafd003882 ("f2fs crypto: allocate buffer
>>>> for decrypting filename"):
>>>>
>>>>  We got dentry pages from high_mem, and its address space directly goes into the
>>>>  decryption path via f2fs_fname_disk_to_usr.
>>>>  But, sg_init_one assumes the address is not from high_mem, so we can get this
>>>>  panic since it doesn't call kmap_high but kunmap_high is triggered at the end.
>>>>
>>>>  kernel BUG at ../../../../../../kernel/mm/highmem.c:290!
>>>>  Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
>>>>  ...
>>>>   (kunmap_high+0xb0/0xb8) from [<c0114534>] (__kunmap_atomic+0xa0/0xa4)
>>>>   (__kunmap_atomic+0xa0/0xa4) from [<c035f028>] (blkcipher_walk_done+0x128/0x1ec)
>>>>   (blkcipher_walk_done+0x128/0x1ec) from [<c0366c24>] (crypto_cbc_decrypt+0xc0/0x170)
>>>>   (crypto_cbc_decrypt+0xc0/0x170) from [<c0367148>] (crypto_cts_decrypt+0xc0/0x114)
>>>>   (crypto_cts_decrypt+0xc0/0x114) from [<c035ea98>] (async_decrypt+0x40/0x48)
>>>>   (async_decrypt+0x40/0x48) from [<c032ca34>] (f2fs_fname_disk_to_usr+0x124/0x304)
>>>>   (f2fs_fname_disk_to_usr+0x124/0x304) from [<c03056fc>] (f2fs_fill_dentries+0xac/0x188)
>>>>   (f2fs_fill_dentries+0xac/0x188) from [<c03059c8>] (f2fs_readdir+0x1f0/0x300)
>>>>   (f2fs_readdir+0x1f0/0x300) from [<c0218054>] (vfs_readdir+0x90/0xb4)
>>>>   (vfs_readdir+0x90/0xb4) from [<c0218418>] (SyS_getdents64+0x64/0xcc)
>>>>   (SyS_getdents64+0x64/0xcc) from [<c0105ba0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)
>>>>
>>>> Howerver, later patch:
>>>> commit e06f86e61d7a ("f2fs crypto: avoid unneeded memory allocation in ->readdir")
>>>> reverts the codes, which causes panic again in arm, so fix it back to the old version.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>  fs/f2fs/dir.c | 7 +++++++
>>>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/dir.c b/fs/f2fs/dir.c
>>>> index f00b5ed..de2e295 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/f2fs/dir.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/dir.c
>>>> @@ -825,9 +825,16 @@ int f2fs_fill_dentries(struct dir_context *ctx, struct f2fs_dentry_ptr *d,
>>>>  			int save_len = fstr->len;
>>>>  			int err;
>>>>  
>>>> +			de_name.name = f2fs_kmalloc(sbi, de_name.len, GFP_NOFS);
>>>> +			if (!de_name.name)
>>>> +				return -ENOMEM;
>>>> +
>>>> +			memcpy(de_name.name, d->filename[bit_pos], de_name.len);
>>>> +
>>>>  			err = fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr(d->inode,
>>>>  						(u32)de->hash_code, 0,
>>>>  						&de_name, fstr);
>>>> +			kfree(de_name.name);
>>>>  			if (err)
>>>>  				return err;
>>>>  
>>>> -- 
>>>> 1.8.5.2
>>>
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