Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] s390/crash: use static swap buffer for copy_to_user_real()

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 03:32:40PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c
> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ struct save_area {
>  };
>  
>  static LIST_HEAD(dump_save_areas);

I'd suggest you need a mutex here so that simultaneous calls to
copy_to_user_real() don't corrupt each others data.

> +static char memcpy_real_buf[PAGE_SIZE];
>  
>  /*
>   * Allocate a save area
> @@ -179,23 +180,18 @@ 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;
>  
> -	buf = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!buf)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
>  	rc = -EFAULT;
>  	while (offs < count) {
>  		size = min(PAGE_SIZE, count - offs);
> -		if (memcpy_real(buf, src + offs, size))
> +		if (memcpy_real(memcpy_real_buf, src + offs, size))
>  			goto out;
> -		if (copy_to_user(dest + offs, buf, size))
> +		if (copy_to_user(dest + offs, memcpy_real_buf, size))
>  			goto out;
>  		offs += size;
>  	}
>  	rc = 0;
>  out:
> -	free_page((unsigned long)buf);
>  	return rc;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>