Re: [PATCH net] page_pool: mask the page->signature before the checking

On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 09:06:57AM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:

As mentioned in commit c07aea3ef4d4 ("mm: add a signature
in struct page"):
"The page->signature field is aliased to page->lru.next and
page->compound_head."

And as the comment in page_is_pfmemalloc():
"lru.next has bit 1 set if the page is allocated from the
pfmemalloc reserves. Callers may simply overwrite it if they
do not need to preserve that information."

The page->signature is or’ed with PP_SIGNATURE when a page is
allocated in page pool, see __page_pool_alloc_pages_slow(),
and page->signature is checked directly with PP_SIGNATURE in
page_pool_return_skb_page(), which might cause resoure leaking
problem for a page from page pool if bit 1 of lru.next is set for
a pfmemalloc page.

As bit 0 is page->compound_head, So mask both bit 0 and 1 before
the checking in page_pool_return_skb_page().

No, you don't understand.  We *want* the check to fail if we were low
on memory so we return the emergency allocation.