Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] io_uring: rsrc: avoid use of vmas parameter in pin_user_pages()

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 4/19/23 12:24?PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 07:23:00PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 07:18:26PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
>>> So even if I did the FOLL_ALLOW_BROKEN_FILE_MAPPING patch series first, I
>>> would still need to come along and delete a bunch of your code
>>> afterwards. And unfortunately Pavel's recent change which insists on not
>>> having different vm_file's across VMAs for the buffer would have to be
>>> reverted so I expect it might not be entirely without discussion.
>>
>> I don't even understand why Pavel wanted to make this change.  The
>> commit log really doesn't say.
>>
>> commit edd478269640
>> Author: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
>> Date:   Wed Feb 22 14:36:48 2023 +0000
>>
>>     io_uring/rsrc: disallow multi-source reg buffers
>>
>>     If two or more mappings go back to back to each other they can be passed
>>     into io_uring to be registered as a single registered buffer. That would
>>     even work if mappings came from different sources, e.g. it's possible to
>>     mix in this way anon pages and pages from shmem or hugetlb. That is not
>>     a problem but it'd rather be less prone if we forbid such mixing.
>>
>>     Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>>     Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
>>     Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
>>
>> It even says "That is not a problem"!  So why was this patch merged
>> if it's not fixing a problem?
>>
>> It's now standing in the way of an actual cleanup.  So why don't we
>> revert it?  There must be more to it than this ...
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/61ded378-51a8-1dcb-b631-fda1903248a9@gmail.com/

Let's just kill that patch that, I can add a revert for 6.4. I had
forgotten about that patch and guess I didn't realize that most of the
issue do in fact just stem from that.

-- 
Jens Axboe