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    net: add WARN_ONCE in kernel_sendpage() for improper zero-copy send · 7b62d31d
    Coly Li authored
    If a page sent into kernel_sendpage() is a slab page or it doesn't have
    ref_count, this page is improper to send by the zero copy sendpage()
    method. Otherwise such page might be unexpected released in network code
    path and causes impredictable panic due to kernel memory management data
    structure corruption.
    
    This path adds a WARN_ON() on the sending page before sends it into the
    concrete zero-copy sendpage() method, if the page is improper for the
    zero-copy sendpage() method, a warning message can be observed before
    the consequential unpredictable kernel panic.
    
    This patch does not change existing kernel_sendpage() behavior for the
    improper page zero-copy send, it just provides hint warning message for
    following potential panic due the kernel memory heap corruption.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarColy Li <colyli@suse.de>
    Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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