On 17/04/2021 01.07, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> 32-bit architectures which expect 8-byte alignment for 8-byte integers
> and need 64-bit DMA addresses (arc, arm, mips, ppc) had their struct
> page inadvertently expanded in 2019. When the dma_addr_t was added,
> it forced the alignment of the union to 8 bytes, which inserted a 4 byte
> gap between 'flags' and the union.
>
> Fix this by storing the dma_addr_t in one or two adjacent unsigned longs.
> This restores the alignment to that of an unsigned long, and also fixes a
> potential problem where (on a big endian platform), the bit used to denote
> PageTail could inadvertently get set, and a racing get_user_pages_fast()
> could dereference a bogus compound_head().
>
> Fixes: c25fff7171be ("mm: add dma_addr_t to struct page")
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <wi...@infradead.org>
> ---
> include/linux/mm_types.h | 4 ++--
> include/net/page_pool.h | 12 +++++++++++-
> net/core/page_pool.c | 12 +++++++-----
> 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> index 6613b26a8894..5aacc1c10a45 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> @@ -97,10 +97,10 @@ struct page {
> };
> struct { /* page_pool used by netstack */
> /**
> - * @dma_addr: might require a 64-bit value even on
> + * @dma_addr: might require a 64-bit value on
> * 32-bit architectures.
> */
> - dma_addr_t dma_addr;
> + unsigned long dma_addr[2];
Shouldn't that member get another name (_dma_addr?) to be sure the
buildbots catch every possible (ab)user and get them turned into the new
accessors? Sure, page->dma_addr is now "pointer to unsigned long"
instead of "dma_addr_t", but who knows if there's a
"(long)page->dma_addr" somewhere?
Rasmus
