Re: [PATCHv7 2/3] mm/gup: fix omission of check on FOLL_LONGTERM in gup fast path

Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-17T12:09:39Z

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 07:47:32PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> FOLL_LONGTERM is a special case of FOLL_PIN. It suggests a pin which is
> going to be given to hardware and can't move. It would truncate CMA
> permanently and should be excluded.
>
> In gup slow path, slow path, where
> __gup_longterm_locked->check_and_migrate_cma_pages() handles FOLL_LONGTERM,
> but in fast path, there lacks such a check, which means a possible leak of
> CMA page to longterm pinned.
>
> Place a check in try_grab_compound_head() in the fast path to fix the leak,
> and if FOLL_LONGTERM happens on CMA, it will fall back to slow path to
> migrate the page.
>
> Some note about the check:
> Huge page's subpages have the same migrate type due to either
> allocation from a free_list[] or alloc_contig_range() with param
> MIGRATE_MOVABLE. So it is enough to check on a single subpage
> by is_migrate_cma_page(subpage)

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>