Commit dbfe7d74 authored by John Hubbard's avatar John Hubbard Committed by David S. Miller

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@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rds-devel@oss.oracle.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 9740a7ae
......@@ -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;
......
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