[PATCH v8 16/17] iov_iter: Introduce nofault flag to disable page faults

Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-10-19T13:46:10Z

Introduce a new nofault flag to indicate to iov_iter_get_pages not to
fault in user pages.

This is implemented by passing the FOLL_NOFAULT flag to get_user_pages,
which causes get_user_pages to fail when it would otherwise fault in a
page. We'll use the ->nofault flag to prevent iomap_dio_rw from faulting
in pages when page faults are not allowed.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
---
include/linux/uio.h | 1 +
lib/iov_iter.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index 25d1c24fd829..6350354f97e9 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct iov_iter_state {

struct iov_iter {
u8 iter_type;
+ bool nofault;
bool data_source;
size_t iov_offset;
size_t count;
diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index ac9a87e727a3..66a740e6e153 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ void iov_iter_init(struct iov_iter *i, unsigned int direction,
WARN_ON(direction & ~(READ | WRITE));
*i = (struct iov_iter) {
.iter_type = ITER_IOVEC,
+ .nofault = false,
.data_source = direction,
.iov = iov,
.nr_segs = nr_segs,
@@ -1527,13 +1528,17 @@ ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages(struct iov_iter *i,
return 0;

if (likely(iter_is_iovec(i))) {
+ unsigned int gup_flags = 0;
unsigned long addr;

+ if (iov_iter_rw(i) != WRITE)
+ gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
+ if (i->nofault)
+ gup_flags |= FOLL_NOFAULT;
+
addr = first_iovec_segment(i, &len, start, maxsize, maxpages);
n = DIV_ROUND_UP(len, PAGE_SIZE);
- res = get_user_pages_fast(addr, n,
- iov_iter_rw(i) != WRITE ? FOLL_WRITE : 0,
- pages);
+ res = get_user_pages_fast(addr, n, gup_flags, pages);
if (unlikely(res <= 0))
return res;
return (res == n ? len : res * PAGE_SIZE) - *start;
@@ -1649,15 +1654,20 @@ ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages_alloc(struct iov_iter *i,
return 0;

if (likely(iter_is_iovec(i))) {
+ unsigned int gup_flags = 0;
unsigned long addr;

+ if (iov_iter_rw(i) != WRITE)
+ gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
+ if (i->nofault)
+ gup_flags |= FOLL_NOFAULT;
+
addr = first_iovec_segment(i, &len, start, maxsize, ~0U);
n = DIV_ROUND_UP(len, PAGE_SIZE);
p = get_pages_array(n);
if (!p)
return -ENOMEM;
- res = get_user_pages_fast(addr, n,
- iov_iter_rw(i) != WRITE ? FOLL_WRITE : 0, p);
+ res = get_user_pages_fast(addr, n, gup_flags, p);
if (unlikely(res <= 0)) {
kvfree(p);
*pages = NULL;
--
2.26.3