On Sun,  6 Nov 2011 20:13:58 +0100, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> 
wrote:
> drm/i915 wants to read/write more than one page in its fastpath
> and hence needs to prefault more than PAGE_SIZE bytes.
> 
> I've checked the callsites and they all already clamp size when
> calling fault_in_pages_* to the same as for the subsequent
> __copy_to|from_user and hence don't rely on the implicit clamping
> to PAGE_SIZE.
> 
> Also kill a copy&pasted spurious space in both functions while at it.
> 
> Cc: linux...@kvack.org
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch>
> ---
>  include/linux/pagemap.h |   28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
> index cfaaa69..689527d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
> @@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ extern void add_page_wait_queue(struct page *page, 
> wait_queue_t *waiter);
>  static inline int fault_in_pages_writeable(char __user *uaddr, int size)
>  {
>       int ret;
> +     char __user *end = uaddr + size - 1;
>  
>       if (unlikely(size == 0))
>               return 0;
> @@ -416,17 +417,20 @@ static inline int fault_in_pages_writeable(char __user 
> *uaddr, int size)
>        * Writing zeroes into userspace here is OK, because we know that if
>        * the zero gets there, we'll be overwriting it.
>        */
> -     ret = __put_user(0, uaddr);
> +     while (uaddr <= end) {
> +             ret = __put_user(0, uaddr);
> +             if (ret != 0)
> +                     return ret;
> +             uaddr += PAGE_SIZE;
> +     }
>       if (ret == 0) {
> -             char __user *end = uaddr + size - 1;
> -
>               /*
>                * If the page was already mapped, this will get a cache miss
>                * for sure, so try to avoid doing it.
>                */
> -             if (((unsigned long)uaddr & PAGE_MASK) !=
> +             if (((unsigned long)uaddr & PAGE_MASK) ==
>                               ((unsigned long)end & PAGE_MASK))
> -                     ret = __put_user(0, end);
> +                     ret = __put_user(0, end);
>       }
>       return ret;

You leave these functions in a worse mess by introducing a false
compiler warning about an uninitialized ret by the now redundant test
against zero, a do{}while loop would be clearer that the original
behaviour is merely extended upon. And please replace the open-coded
offset_in_page().
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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