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Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences

From Ross Zwisler <zwisler@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences
Date 2016-01-31 07:20 +0100
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> On Jan 30, 2016, at 7:32 PM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:01:13PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>> If we store the PFN of the underlying page instead, we don't have this
>>> problem.  Instead, we have a different problem; of the device going
>>> away under us.  I'm trying to find the code which tears down PTEs when
>>> the device goes away, and I'm not seeing it.  What do we do about user
>>> mappings of the device?
>> 
>> I deferred the dax tear down code until next cycle as Al rightly
>> pointed out some needed re-works:
>> 
>> https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2016-January/003995.html
> 
> Thanks; I eventually found it in my email somewhere over the Pacific.
> 
> I did probably 70% of the work needed to switch the radix tree over to
> storing PFNs instead of sectors.  It seems viable, though it's a big
> change from where we are today:

At one point I had kaddrs in the radix tree, so I could just pull the addresses out
and flush them.  That would save us a pfn -> kaddrs conversion before flush.

Is there a reason to store pnfs instead of kaddrs in the radix tree?

> 
> fs/dax.c                   | 415 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> include/linux/dax.h        |   3 +-
> include/linux/pfn_t.h      |  33 +++-
> include/linux/radix-tree.h |   9 -
> 4 files changed, 236 insertions(+), 224 deletions(-)
> 
> I'll try and get that finished off this week.
> 
> One concrete and easily-separable piece is that dax_clear_blocks() has
> the wrong signature.  It currently takes an inode & block as parameters;
> it has no way of finding out the correct block device.  It's only two
> callers are filesystems (ext2 and xfs).  Those filesystems should be
> passing the block_device instead of the inode.  But without the inode,
> we can't convert a block number to a sector number, so we also need
> to pass the sector number, not the block number.  It still has type
> sector_t, annoyingly.
> 
> @@ -63,12 +238,11 @@ static void dax_unmap_atomic(struct block_device *bdev,
>  * and hence this means the stack from this point must follow GFP_NOFS
>  * semantics for all operations.
>  */
> -int dax_clear_blocks(struct inode *inode, sector_t block, long _size)
> +int dax_clear_blocks(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, long size)
> {
> -       struct block_device *bdev = inode->i_sb->s_bdev;
>        struct blk_dax_ctl dax = {
> -               .sector = block << (inode->i_blkbits - 9),
> -               .size = _size,
> +               .sector = sector,
> +               .size = size,
>        };
> 
>        might_sleep();
> 
> but I haven't looked at doing the conversion of xfs or ext2 to use that
> new interface.
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[PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-01-28 20:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-01-28 21:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-01-28 22:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-01-30 00:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-01-30 01:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-01-31 23:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> - 2016-01-30 06:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-01-30 07:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> - 2016-01-30 08:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> - 2016-01-31 03:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <zwisler@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 07:20 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> - 2016-01-31 12:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-01-31 17:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> - 2016-01-31 19:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-01-31 19:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> - 2016-01-31 19:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-01-31 20:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-01-31 21:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-02-01 16:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-01 21:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-02-01 22:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> - 2016-02-02 07:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-02-02 07:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> - 2016-02-02 09:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-02-02 18:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> - 2016-02-02 22:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-03 01:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> - 2016-02-03 02:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-02-02 12:20 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-02-02 17:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-02-02 17:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-02-02 18:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-02 18:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-02-02 18:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-02 19:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-02-02 18:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-02 19:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-02-02 20:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-02 21:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-02-03 12:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-02-03 11:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-03 21:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-02-04 10:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-05 00:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-02-07 00:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-07 06:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-04 21:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-02-04 21:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-04 23:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-05 23:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-02-07 00:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-07 07:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-02-08 14:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-02-07 09:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-08 17:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-02 19:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-02 20:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-02 01:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-02-02 08:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix bdev NULL pointer dereferences Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-02-02 11:40 +0100

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