Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 2 authors, 2019-12-17

[PATCH v10 08/25] mm/gup: allow FOLL_FORCE for get_user_pages_fast()

From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Date: 2019-12-12 08:22:02
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Subsystem: memory management, memory management - gup (get user pages), the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Linus Torvalds

Commit 817be129e6f2 ("mm: validate get_user_pages_fast flags") allowed
only FOLL_WRITE and FOLL_LONGTERM to be passed to get_user_pages_fast().
This, combined with the fact that get_user_pages_fast() falls back to
"slow gup", which *does* accept FOLL_FORCE, leads to an odd situation:
if you need FOLL_FORCE, you cannot call get_user_pages_fast().

There does not appear to be any reason for filtering out FOLL_FORCE.
There is nothing in the _fast() implementation that requires that we
avoid writing to the pages. So it appears to have been an oversight.

Fix by allowing FOLL_FORCE to be set for get_user_pages_fast().

Fixes: 817be129e6f2 ("mm: validate get_user_pages_fast flags")
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
---
 mm/gup.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index c0c56888e7cc..958ab0757389 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -2414,7 +2414,8 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages,
 	unsigned long addr, len, end;
 	int nr = 0, ret = 0;
 
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gup_flags & ~(FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM)))
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gup_flags & ~(FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM |
+				       FOLL_FORCE)))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	start = untagged_addr(start) & PAGE_MASK;
-- 
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