linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 3/4] s390/crash: use static swap buffer for copy_to_user

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Message-Id: <334ed359680c4d45dd32feb104909f610312ef0f.1658206891.git.agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 19 Jul 2022 07:16:35 +0200
From:   Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/4] s390/crash: use static swap buffer for copy_to_user_real()

Currently a temporary page-size buffer is allocated for copying
oldmem to user space. That limits copy_to_user_real() operation
only to stages when virtual memory is available and still makes
it possible to fail while the system is being dumped.

Instead of reallocating single page on each copy_oldmem_page()
iteration use a statically allocated buffer.

This also paves the way for a further memcpy_real() rework where
no swap buffer is needed altogether.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c | 26 ++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c b/arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c
index 8d7332d4444c..1662f1d81abe 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ struct save_area {
 };
 
 static LIST_HEAD(dump_save_areas);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(memcpy_real_mutex);
+static char memcpy_real_buf[PAGE_SIZE];
 
 /*
  * Allocate a save area
@@ -178,25 +180,21 @@ int copy_oldmem_kernel(void *dst, unsigned long src, size_t count)
  */
 static int copy_to_user_real(void __user *dest, unsigned long src, unsigned long count)
 {
-	int offs = 0, size, rc;
-	char *buf;
+	unsigned long offs = 0, size;
 
-	buf = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!buf)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	rc = -EFAULT;
+	mutex_lock(&memcpy_real_mutex);
 	while (offs < count) {
 		size = min(PAGE_SIZE, count - offs);
-		if (memcpy_real(buf, src + offs, size))
-			goto out;
-		if (copy_to_user(dest + offs, buf, size))
-			goto out;
+		if (memcpy_real(memcpy_real_buf, src + offs, size))
+			break;
+		if (copy_to_user(dest + offs, memcpy_real_buf, size))
+			break;
 		offs += size;
 	}
-	rc = 0;
-out:
-	free_page((unsigned long)buf);
-	return rc;
+	mutex_unlock(&memcpy_real_mutex);
+	if (offs < count)
+		return -EFAULT;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.34.1