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Date:   Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:44:54 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] net: simplify sk_page_frag

On Mon, 2022-11-21 at 08:35 -0500, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
> Now that in-kernel socket users that may recurse during reclaim have benn
> converted to sk_use_task_frag = false, we can have sk_page_frag() simply
> check that value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>
> ---
>  include/net/sock.h | 9 ++-------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
> index ffba9e95470d..fac24c6ee30d 100644
> --- a/include/net/sock.h
> +++ b/include/net/sock.h
> @@ -2539,19 +2539,14 @@ static inline void sk_stream_moderate_sndbuf(struct sock *sk)
>   * Both direct reclaim and page faults can nest inside other
>   * socket operations and end up recursing into sk_page_frag()
>   * while it's already in use: explicitly avoid task page_frag
> - * usage if the caller is potentially doing any of them.
> - * This assumes that page fault handlers use the GFP_NOFS flags or
> - * explicitly disable sk_use_task_frag.
> + * when users disable sk_use_task_frag.
>   *
>   * Return: a per task page_frag if context allows that,
>   * otherwise a per socket one.
>   */
>  static inline struct page_frag *sk_page_frag(struct sock *sk)
>  {
> -	if (sk->sk_use_task_frag &&
> -	    (sk->sk_allocation & (__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM | __GFP_MEMALLOC |
> -				  __GFP_FS)) ==
> -	    (__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM | __GFP_FS))
> +	if (sk->sk_use_task_frag)
>  		return &current->task_frag;
>  
>  	return &sk->sk_frag;

To make the above as safe as possible I think we should double-check
the in-kernel users explicitly setting sk_allocation to GFP_ATOMIC, as
that has the side effect of disabling the task_frag usage, too.

Patch 2/3 already catches some of such users, and we can safely leave
alone few others, (specifically l2tp, fou and inet_ctl_sock_create()).

Even wireguard and tls looks safe IMHO.

So the only left-over should be espintcp, I suggest updating patch 2/3
clearing sk_use_task_frag even in espintcp_init_sk().

Other than that LGTM.

Cheers,

Paolo