From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Folio-related bug in __iov_iter_get_pages_alloc()?
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:52:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2810985.1790686342@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
Hi Willy,
I'm looking at __iov_iter_get_pages_alloc() and when it's extracting from an
ITER_BVEC, I see:
for (int k = 0; k < n; k++) {
struct folio *folio = page_folio(page + k);
p[k] = page + k;
if (!folio_test_slab(folio))
folio_get(folio);
}
Isn't this wrong? You can't assume the page you're looking at is a folio, and
so you shouldn't use page_folio() on it until you've checked what it is.
Granted, it's quite likely to be a folio, but not only could it be a slab
page, it could also be a randomly allocated page used as a buffer, a network
receive buffer or something allocated with a fragment allocator.
Can we actually safely use folio_get() with all of those, or do we need to use
get_page()? (I know, at moment, get_page() is a wrapper around folio_get(),
but that's likely not to remain the case).
David
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