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The basic idea behind ->pagecnt_bias is: If we pre-allocate the maximum number of references that we might need to create in the fastpath later, the bump-allocation fastpath only has to modify the non-atomic bias value that tracks the number of extra references we hold instead of the atomic refcount. The maximum number of allocations we can serve (under the assumption that no allocation is made with size 0) is nc->size, so that's the bias used. However, even when all memory in the allocation has been given away, a reference to the page is still held; and in the `offset < 0` slowpath, the page may be reused if everyone else has dropped their references. This means that the necessary number of references is actually `nc->size+1`. Luckily, from a quick grep, it looks like the only path that can call page_frag_alloc(fragsz=1) is TAP with the IFF_NAPI_FRAGS flag, which requires CAP_NET_ADMIN in the init namespace and is only intended to be used for kernel testing and fuzzing. To test for this issue, put a `WARN_ON(page_ref_count(page) == 0)` in the `offset < 0` path, below the virt_to_page() call, and then repeatedly call writev() on a TAP device with IFF_TAP|IFF_NO_PI|IFF_NAPI_FRAGS|IFF_NAPI, with a vector consisting of 15 elements containing 1 byte each. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.