net: introduce helper sendpage_ok() in include/linux/net.h
The original problem was from nvme-over-tcp code, who mistakenly uses kernel_sendpage() to send pages allocated by __get_free_pages() without __GFP_COMP flag. Such pages don't have refcount (page_count is 0) on tail pages, sending them by kernel_sendpage() may trigger a kernel panic from a corrupted kernel heap, because these pages are incorrectly freed in network stack as page_count 0 pages. This patch introduces a helper sendpage_ok(), it returns true if the checking page, - is not slab page: PageSlab(page) is false. - has page refcount: page_count(page) is not zero All drivers who want to send page to remote end by kernel_sendpage() may use this helper to check whether the page is OK. If the helper does not return true, the driver should try other non sendpage method (e.g. sock_no_sendpage()) to handle the page. 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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