netdev - [PATCH] rds: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user

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Date:   Sat, 16 May 2020 18:23:36 -0700
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>, <rds-devel@....oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] rds: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()

This code was using get_user_pages_fast(), in a "Case 2" scenario
(DMA/RDMA), using the categorization from [1]. That means that it's
time to convert the get_user_pages_fast() + put_page() calls to
pin_user_pages_fast() + unpin_user_pages() calls.

There is some helpful background in [2]: basically, this is a small
part of fixing a long-standing disconnect between pinning pages, and
file systems' use of those pages.

[1] Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst

[2] "Explicit pinning of user-space pages":
    https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Cc: rds-devel@....oracle.com
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
---
 net/rds/info.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/info.c b/net/rds/info.c
index 03f6fd56d237..e1d63563e81c 100644
--- a/net/rds/info.c
+++ b/net/rds/info.c
@@ -162,7 +162,6 @@ int rds_info_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int optname, char __user *optval,
 	struct rds_info_lengths lens;
 	unsigned long nr_pages = 0;
 	unsigned long start;
-	unsigned long i;
 	rds_info_func func;
 	struct page **pages = NULL;
 	int ret;
@@ -193,7 +192,7 @@ int rds_info_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int optname, char __user *optval,
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}
-	ret = get_user_pages_fast(start, nr_pages, FOLL_WRITE, pages);
+	ret = pin_user_pages_fast(start, nr_pages, FOLL_WRITE, pages);
 	if (ret != nr_pages) {
 		if (ret > 0)
 			nr_pages = ret;
@@ -235,8 +234,7 @@ int rds_info_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int optname, char __user *optval,
 		ret = -EFAULT;
 
 out:
-	for (i = 0; pages && i < nr_pages; i++)
-		put_page(pages[i]);
+	unpin_user_pages(pages, nr_pages);
 	kfree(pages);
 
 	return ret;

base-commit: 3d1c1e5931ce45b3a3f309385bbc00c78e9951c6
-- 
2.26.2