netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: detecting the misuse of .sendpage for Slab objects

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Message-ID: <0651e79d-5dfa-1d2c-6c92-dccc5a9027a7@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Mar 2019 08:31:23 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Vasily Averin <vvs@...tuozzo.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: detecting the misuse of .sendpage for Slab objects



On 03/06/2019 03:10 AM, Vasily Averin wrote:
> sendpage was not designed for processing of the Slab pages,
> in some situations it can trigger BUG_ON on receiving side.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@...tuozzo.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/tcp.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> index ad07dd71063d..dbb08140cdc9 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> @@ -943,6 +943,10 @@ ssize_t do_tcp_sendpages(struct sock *sk, struct page *page, int offset,
>  	ssize_t copied;
>  	long timeo = sock_sndtimeo(sk, flags & MSG_DONTWAIT);
>  
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM) &&
> +	    WARN_ONCE(PageSlab(page), "page must not be a Slab one"))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	/* Wait for a connection to finish. One exception is TCP Fast Open
>  	 * (passive side) where data is allowed to be sent before a connection
>  	 * is fully established.
> 

SGTM

David, this probably can be merged into net tree.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>