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[PATCH v2 6/7] block: unpin all pages of a bvec in bio_iov_iter_align_down()

From: Tal Zussman <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-28 13:50:37
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: block layer, the rest · Maintainers: Jens Axboe, Linus Torvalds

bio_iov_iter_align_down() drops trailing bvecs with unpin_user_page(),
but a bvec built by iov_iter_extract_bvecs() can span several pages of
one folio, each with its own pin. All but the first pin leak.

The partially trimmed bvec has the same problem. Shrinking bv_len does
not release the pins for the pages cut off by the trim, and
__bio_release_pages() only unpins the pages bv_len still covers at
completion.

Both issues occur only with a logical block size above PAGE_SIZE and a
large folio backing the user buffer. On a device with a 64K logical
block size, an O_DIRECT pwritev() from a hugetlb mapping that ends 16K
past a block boundary leaks one huge page per call, whether the
remainder is its own bvec or the tail of a larger one.

Unpin all pages of a dropped bvec with unpin_user_folio(), as
__bio_release_pages() does, and unpin the pages trimmed off the last
bvec as well.

Fixes: 20a0e6276edb ("block: align the bio after building it")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman <redacted>
---
 block/bio.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index 898b2f5ef8c8..48fa6b9a6dba 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1196,6 +1196,11 @@ bool bio_iov_iter_set(struct bio *bio, const struct iov_iter *iter)
 	return true;
 }
 
+static unsigned int bvec_nr_pages(const struct bio_vec *bv)
+{
+	return DIV_ROUND_UP(bv->bv_offset + bv->bv_len, PAGE_SIZE);
+}
+
 /*
  * Aligns the bio size to the len_align_mask, releasing excessive bio vecs that
  * __bio_iov_iter_get_pages may have inserted, and reverts the trimmed length
@@ -1205,6 +1210,7 @@ static int bio_iov_iter_align_down(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter,
 				   struct bio_vec *bv, unsigned len_align_mask)
 {
 	size_t nbytes = bio->bi_iter.bi_size & len_align_mask;
+	unsigned int npages;
 
 	if (!nbytes)
 		return 0;
@@ -1213,14 +1219,24 @@ static int bio_iov_iter_align_down(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter,
 	bio->bi_iter.bi_size -= nbytes;
 	while (nbytes >= bv->bv_len) {
 		if (bio_flagged(bio, BIO_PAGE_PINNED))
-			unpin_user_page(bv->bv_page);
+			unpin_user_folio(bvec_folio(bv),
+					 bvec_nr_pages(bv));
 
 		if (!--bio->bi_vcnt)
 			return -EFAULT;
 		nbytes -= bv->bv_len;
 		bv--;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * __bio_release_pages() only unpins the pages still covered by
+	 * bv_len, so drop the pins for the pages trimmed off here.
+	 */
+	npages = bvec_nr_pages(bv);
 	bv->bv_len -= nbytes;
+	npages -= bvec_nr_pages(bv);
+	if (npages && bio_flagged(bio, BIO_PAGE_PINNED))
+		unpin_user_folio(bvec_folio(bv), npages);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
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