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mm: fix process_vm_rw page counts

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1. There is a "-1" missing in the page number calculation in
   process_vm_rw_core.  While this can't break anything, it can cause
   unnecessary allocations in certain cases:

   Consider handling an iovec ranging over PVM_MAX_PP_ARRAY_COUNT pages
   that is also aligned to a page boundary.  While pp_stack could hold
   references to such an amount of pinned pages, nr_pages yields
   (PVM_MAX_PP_ARRAY + 1) in process_vm_rw_core.  Consequently, a larger
   buffer is allocated with kmalloc for no reason.

   For any page boundary aligned iovec that is a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
   and larger than PVM_MAX_PP_ARRAY_COUNT pages, nr_pages will be too big
   by 1 and thus kmalloc allocates excess space for one more pointer.

2. max_pages_per_loop is constant and there is no reason to have it as
   a variable.  A macro does the job just fine and saves memory.

3. Replaced "sizeof(struct pages *)" with "sizeof(struct page *)" to
   have matching types for allocation and prevent confusion.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231111184859.44264-1-yjnworkstation@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: York Jasper Niebuhr <yjnworkstation@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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York Jasper Niebuhr 2023-11-11 19:48:59 +01:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent 69e583eaca
commit 932b59e3be
1 changed files with 8 additions and 7 deletions
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mm/process_vm_access.c
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@ -53,7 +53,10 @@ static int process_vm_rw_pages(struct page **pages,
}
/* Maximum number of pages kmalloc'd to hold struct page's during copy */
#define PVM_MAX_KMALLOC_PAGES (PAGE_SIZE * 2)
#define PVM_MAX_KMALLOC_PAGES 2
/* Maximum number of pages that can be stored at a time */
#define PVM_MAX_USER_PAGES (PVM_MAX_KMALLOC_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page *))
/**
* process_vm_rw_single_vec - read/write pages from task specified
@ -79,8 +82,6 @@ static int process_vm_rw_single_vec(unsigned long addr,
unsigned long start_offset = addr - pa;
unsigned long nr_pages;
ssize_t rc = 0;
unsigned long max_pages_per_loop = PVM_MAX_KMALLOC_PAGES
/ sizeof(struct pages *);
unsigned int flags = 0;
/* Work out address and page range required */
@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ static int process_vm_rw_single_vec(unsigned long addr,
flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
while (!rc && nr_pages && iov_iter_count(iter)) {
int pinned_pages = min(nr_pages, max_pages_per_loop);
int pinned_pages = min_t(unsigned long, nr_pages, PVM_MAX_USER_PAGES);
int locked = 1;
size_t bytes;
@ -171,7 +172,7 @@ static ssize_t process_vm_rw_core(pid_t pid, struct iov_iter *iter,
iov_len = rvec[i].iov_len;
if (iov_len > 0) {
nr_pages_iov = ((unsigned long)rvec[i].iov_base
+ iov_len)
+ iov_len - 1)
/ PAGE_SIZE - (unsigned long)rvec[i].iov_base
/ PAGE_SIZE + 1;
nr_pages = max(nr_pages, nr_pages_iov);
@ -184,8 +185,8 @@ static ssize_t process_vm_rw_core(pid_t pid, struct iov_iter *iter,
if (nr_pages > PVM_MAX_PP_ARRAY_COUNT) {
/* For reliability don't try to kmalloc more than
2 pages worth */
process_pages = kmalloc(min_t(size_t, PVM_MAX_KMALLOC_PAGES,
sizeof(struct pages *)*nr_pages),
process_pages = kmalloc(min_t(size_t, PVM_MAX_KMALLOC_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE,
sizeof(struct page *)*nr_pages),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!process_pages)