Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 11 authors, 2021-04-21

Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems

From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date: 2021-04-20 07:21:38
Also in: linux-mips, linux-mm, linuxppc-dev, lkml, netdev

On 17/04/2021 01.07, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
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32-bit architectures which expect 8-byte alignment for 8-byte integers
and need 64-bit DMA addresses (arc, arm, mips, ppc) had their struct
page inadvertently expanded in 2019.  When the dma_addr_t was added,
it forced the alignment of the union to 8 bytes, which inserted a 4 byte
gap between 'flags' and the union.

Fix this by storing the dma_addr_t in one or two adjacent unsigned longs.
This restores the alignment to that of an unsigned long, and also fixes a
potential problem where (on a big endian platform), the bit used to denote
PageTail could inadvertently get set, and a racing get_user_pages_fast()
could dereference a bogus compound_head().

Fixes: c25fff7171be ("mm: add dma_addr_t to struct page")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
---
 include/linux/mm_types.h |  4 ++--
 include/net/page_pool.h  | 12 +++++++++++-
 net/core/page_pool.c     | 12 +++++++-----
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 6613b26a8894..5aacc1c10a45 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -97,10 +97,10 @@ struct page {
 		};
 		struct {	/* page_pool used by netstack */
 			/**
-			 * @dma_addr: might require a 64-bit value even on
+			 * @dma_addr: might require a 64-bit value on
 			 * 32-bit architectures.
 			 */
-			dma_addr_t dma_addr;
+			unsigned long dma_addr[2];
Shouldn't that member get another name (_dma_addr?) to be sure the
buildbots catch every possible (ab)user and get them turned into the new
accessors? Sure, page->dma_addr is now "pointer to unsigned long"
instead of "dma_addr_t", but who knows if there's a
"(long)page->dma_addr" somewhere?

Rasmus

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