Re: [BUG] from x86: Support kmap_local() forced debugging

[Willem de Bruijn]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 3:53 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 11:47:02 -0800
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 8:45 PM Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > But there are three other kmap_atomic callers under net/ that do not
> > > loop at all, so assume non-compound pages. In esp_output_head,
> > > esp6_output_head and skb_seq_read. The first two directly use
> > > skb_page_frag_refill, which can allocate compound (but not
> > > __GFP_HIGHMEM) pages, and the third can be inserted with
> > > netfilter xt_string in the path of tcp transmit skbs, which can also
> > > have compound pages. I think that these could similarly access
> > > data beyond the end of the kmap_atomic mapped page. I'll take
> > > a closer look.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Note that I have flushed my random one-liner patch from my system, and
> > expect to get a proper fix through the normal networking pulls.
> >
> > And _if_ the networking people feel that my one-liner was the proper
> > fix, you can use it and add my sign-off if you want to, but it really
> > was more of a "this is the quick ugly fix for testing" rather than
> > anything else.

I do think it is the proper fix as is. If no one else has comments, I
can submit it through the net tree.

It won't address the other issues that became apparent only as a
result of this. I'm preparing separate patches for those.

> Please add:
>
>   Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210106180132.41dc249d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>   Reported-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> And if you take Linus's patch, please add my:
>
>   Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> and if you come up with another patch, please send it to me for testing.
>
> Thanks!

Will do, thanks.