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
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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 _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel