Re: [PATCH 1/2] nvme-tcp: use sendpage_ok() to check page for kernel_sendpage()

[Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>]

On 7/26/20 6:52 AM, Coly Li wrote:
> Currently nvme_tcp_try_send_data() doesn't use kernel_sendpage() to
> send slab pages. But for pages allocated by __get_free_pages() without
> __GFP_COMP, which also have refcount as 0, they are still sent by
> kernel_sendpage() to remote end, this is problematic.
> 
> When bcache uses a remote NVMe SSD via nvme-over-tcp as its cache
> device, writing meta data e.g. cache_set->disk_buckets to remote SSD may
> trigger a kernel panic due to the above problem. Bcause the meta data
> pages for cache_set->disk_buckets are allocated by __get_free_pages()
> without __GFP_COMP.
> 
> This problem should be fixed both in upper layer driver (bcache) and
> nvme-over-tcp code. This patch fixes the nvme-over-tcp code by checking
> whether the page refcount is 0, if yes then don't use kernel_sendpage()
> and call sock_no_sendpage() to send the page into network stack.
> 
> Such check is done by macro sendpage_ok() in this patch, which is defined
> in include/linux/net.h as,
> 	(!PageSlab(page) && page_count(page) >= 1)
> If sendpage_ok() returns false, sock_no_sendpage() will handle the page
> other than kernel_sendpage().
> 
> The code comments in this patch is copied and modified from drbd where
> the similar problem already gets solved by Philipp Reisner. This is the
> best code comment including my own version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
> Cc: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> Cc: Mikhail Skorzhinskii <mskorzhinskiy@solarflare.com>
> Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> Changelog:
> v3: introduce a more common name sendpage_ok() for the open coded check
> v2: fix typo in patch subject.
> v1: the initial version.
> 
>   drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 13 +++++++++++--
>   include/linux/net.h     |  2 ++
>   2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
> index 79ef2b8e2b3c..f9952f6d94b9 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
> @@ -887,8 +887,17 @@ static int nvme_tcp_try_send_data(struct nvme_tcp_request *req)
>   		else
>   			flags |= MSG_MORE | MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST;
>   
> -		/* can't zcopy slab pages */
> -		if (unlikely(PageSlab(page))) {
> +		/*
> +		 * e.g. XFS meta- & log-data is in slab pages, or bcache meta
> +		 * data pages, or other high order pages allocated by
> +		 * __get_free_pages() without __GFP_COMP, which have a page_count
> +		 * of 0 and/or have PageSlab() set. We cannot use send_page for
> +		 * those, as that does get_page(); put_page(); and would cause
> +		 * either a VM_BUG directly, or __page_cache_release a page that
> +		 * would actually still be referenced by someone, leading to some
> +		 * obscure delayed Oops somewhere else.
> +		 */

I was hoping that this comment would move to the helper as well.

Agree with Christoph comment as well.