From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-io0-f198.google.com (mail-io0-f198.google.com [209.85.223.198]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1CD86B000A for ; Wed, 2 May 2018 13:25:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-io0-f198.google.com with SMTP id u16-v6so2030184iol.18 for ; Wed, 02 May 2018 10:25:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-sor-f41.google.com (mail-sor-f41.google.com. [209.85.220.41]) by mx.google.com with SMTPS id n5-v6sor906439ite.88.2018.05.02.10.25.18 for (Google Transport Security); Wed, 02 May 2018 10:25:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180502153645.fui4ju3scsze3zkq@black.fi.intel.com> References: <0db34d04fa16be162336106e3b4a94f3dacc0af4.1524077494.git.andreyknvl@google.com> <20180426174714.4jtb72q56w3xonsa@armageddon.cambridge.arm.com> <20180502153645.fui4ju3scsze3zkq@black.fi.intel.com> From: Andrey Konovalov Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 19:25:17 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] mm, arm64: untag user addresses in mm/gup.c Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Jonathan Corbet , Mark Rutland , Robin Murphy , Al Viro , James Morse , Kees Cook , Bart Van Assche , Kate Stewart , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , Philippe Ombredanne , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Dan Williams , "Aneesh Kumar K . V" , Zi Yan , Linux ARM , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Linux Memory Management List , Jacob Bramley , Ruben Ayrapetyan , Lee Smith , Kostya Serebryany , Dmitry Vyukov , Ramana Radhakrishnan , Evgeniy Stepanov On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 5:36 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 02:38:42PM +0000, Andrey Konovalov wrote: >> > Does having a tagged address here makes any difference? I couldn't hit a >> > failure with my simple tests (LD_PRELOAD a library that randomly adds >> > tags to pointers returned by malloc). >> >> I think you're right, follow_page_mask is only called from >> __get_user_pages, which already untagged the address. I'll remove >> untagging here. > > It also called from follow_page(). Have you covered all its callers? Oh, missed that, will take a look. Thinking about that, would it make sense to add untagging to find_vma (and others) instead of trying to cover all find_vma callers?