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<title>linux.git/net/9p/client.c, branch v5.4.63</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>9p: Transport error uninitialized</title>
<updated>2019-09-03T11:05:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lu Shuaibing</name>
<email>shuaibinglu@126.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-13T07:08:54+00:00</published>
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The p9_tag_alloc() does not initialize the transport error t_err field.
The struct p9_req_t *req is allocated and stored in a struct p9_client
variable. The field t_err is never initialized before p9_conn_cancel()
checks its value.

KUMSAN(KernelUninitializedMemorySantizer, a new error detection tool)
reports this bug.

==================================================================
BUG: KUMSAN: use of uninitialized memory in p9_conn_cancel+0x2d9/0x3b0
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88805f9b600c by task kworker/1:2/1216

CPU: 1 PID: 1216 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted 5.2.0-rc4+ #28
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events p9_write_work
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x75/0xae
 __kumsan_report+0x17c/0x3e6
 kumsan_report+0xe/0x20
 p9_conn_cancel+0x2d9/0x3b0
 p9_write_work+0x183/0x4a0
 process_one_work+0x4d1/0x8c0
 worker_thread+0x6e/0x780
 kthread+0x1ca/0x1f0
 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

Allocated by task 1979:
 save_stack+0x19/0x80
 __kumsan_kmalloc.constprop.3+0xbc/0x120
 kmem_cache_alloc+0xa7/0x170
 p9_client_prepare_req.part.9+0x3b/0x380
 p9_client_rpc+0x15e/0x880
 p9_client_create+0x3d0/0xac0
 v9fs_session_init+0x192/0xc80
 v9fs_mount+0x67/0x470
 legacy_get_tree+0x70/0xd0
 vfs_get_tree+0x4a/0x1c0
 do_mount+0xba9/0xf90
 ksys_mount+0xa8/0x120
 __x64_sys_mount+0x62/0x70
 do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x1e0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Freed by task 0:
(stack is not available)

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805f9b6008
 which belongs to the cache p9_req_t of size 144
The buggy address is located 4 bytes inside of
 144-byte region [ffff88805f9b6008, ffff88805f9b6098)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00017e6d80 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff888068b63740 index:0xffff88805f9b7d90 compound_mapcount: 0
flags: 0x100000000010200(slab|head)
raw: 0100000000010200 ffff888068b66450 ffff888068b66450 ffff888068b63740
raw: ffff88805f9b7d90 0000000000100001 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kumsan: bad access detected
==================================================================

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190613070854.10434-1-shuaibinglu@126.com
Signed-off-by: Lu Shuaibing &lt;shuaibinglu@126.com&gt;
[dominique.martinet@cea.fr: grouped the added init with the others]
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
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The p9_tag_alloc() does not initialize the transport error t_err field.
The struct p9_req_t *req is allocated and stored in a struct p9_client
variable. The field t_err is never initialized before p9_conn_cancel()
checks its value.

KUMSAN(KernelUninitializedMemorySantizer, a new error detection tool)
reports this bug.

==================================================================
BUG: KUMSAN: use of uninitialized memory in p9_conn_cancel+0x2d9/0x3b0
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88805f9b600c by task kworker/1:2/1216

CPU: 1 PID: 1216 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted 5.2.0-rc4+ #28
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events p9_write_work
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x75/0xae
 __kumsan_report+0x17c/0x3e6
 kumsan_report+0xe/0x20
 p9_conn_cancel+0x2d9/0x3b0
 p9_write_work+0x183/0x4a0
 process_one_work+0x4d1/0x8c0
 worker_thread+0x6e/0x780
 kthread+0x1ca/0x1f0
 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

Allocated by task 1979:
 save_stack+0x19/0x80
 __kumsan_kmalloc.constprop.3+0xbc/0x120
 kmem_cache_alloc+0xa7/0x170
 p9_client_prepare_req.part.9+0x3b/0x380
 p9_client_rpc+0x15e/0x880
 p9_client_create+0x3d0/0xac0
 v9fs_session_init+0x192/0xc80
 v9fs_mount+0x67/0x470
 legacy_get_tree+0x70/0xd0
 vfs_get_tree+0x4a/0x1c0
 do_mount+0xba9/0xf90
 ksys_mount+0xa8/0x120
 __x64_sys_mount+0x62/0x70
 do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x1e0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Freed by task 0:
(stack is not available)

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805f9b6008
 which belongs to the cache p9_req_t of size 144
The buggy address is located 4 bytes inside of
 144-byte region [ffff88805f9b6008, ffff88805f9b6098)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00017e6d80 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff888068b63740 index:0xffff88805f9b7d90 compound_mapcount: 0
flags: 0x100000000010200(slab|head)
raw: 0100000000010200 ffff888068b66450 ffff888068b66450 ffff888068b63740
raw: ffff88805f9b7d90 0000000000100001 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kumsan: bad access detected
==================================================================

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190613070854.10434-1-shuaibinglu@126.com
Signed-off-by: Lu Shuaibing &lt;shuaibinglu@126.com&gt;
[dominique.martinet@cea.fr: grouped the added init with the others]
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 188</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:29:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-28T16:57:16+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
  public license along with this program if not write to free software
  foundation 51 franklin street fifth floor boston ma 02111 1301 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 27 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow &lt;swinslow@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528170026.981318839@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
  public license along with this program if not write to free software
  foundation 51 franklin street fifth floor boston ma 02111 1301 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 27 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow &lt;swinslow@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528170026.981318839@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>9p/net: fix memory leak in p9_client_create</title>
<updated>2019-03-13T10:50:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>zhengbin</name>
<email>zhengbin13@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-13T08:01:37+00:00</published>
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If msize is less than 4096, we should close and put trans, destroy
tagpool, not just free client. This patch fixes that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/m/1552464097-142659-1-git-send-email-zhengbin13@huawei.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 574d356b7a02 ("9p/net: put a lower bound on msize")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: zhengbin &lt;zhengbin13@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
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If msize is less than 4096, we should close and put trans, destroy
tagpool, not just free client. This patch fixes that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/m/1552464097-142659-1-git-send-email-zhengbin13@huawei.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 574d356b7a02 ("9p/net: put a lower bound on msize")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: zhengbin &lt;zhengbin13@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>9p/net: put a lower bound on msize</title>
<updated>2018-12-25T08:07:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominique Martinet</name>
<email>dominique.martinet@cea.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-05T08:52:48+00:00</published>
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If the requested msize is too small (either from command line argument
or from the server version reply), we won't get any work done.
If it's *really* too small, nothing will work, and this got caught by
syzbot recently (on a new kmem_cache_create_usercopy() call)

Just set a minimum msize to 4k in both code paths, until someone
complains they have a use-case for a smaller msize.

We need to check in both mount option and server reply individually
because the msize for the first version request would be unchecked
with just a global check on clnt-&gt;msize.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1541407968-31350-1-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org
Reported-by: syzbot+0c1d61e4db7db94102ca@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen &lt;ericvh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov &lt;lucho@ionkov.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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If the requested msize is too small (either from command line argument
or from the server version reply), we won't get any work done.
If it's *really* too small, nothing will work, and this got caught by
syzbot recently (on a new kmem_cache_create_usercopy() call)

Just set a minimum msize to 4k in both code paths, until someone
complains they have a use-case for a smaller msize.

We need to check in both mount option and server reply individually
because the msize for the first version request would be unchecked
with just a global check on clnt-&gt;msize.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1541407968-31350-1-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org
Reported-by: syzbot+0c1d61e4db7db94102ca@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen &lt;ericvh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov &lt;lucho@ionkov.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.afs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-11-02T02:58:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-02T02:58:52+00:00</published>
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Pull AFS updates from Al Viro:
 "AFS series, with some iov_iter bits included"

* 'work.afs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (26 commits)
  missing bits of "iov_iter: Separate type from direction and use accessor functions"
  afs: Probe multiple fileservers simultaneously
  afs: Fix callback handling
  afs: Eliminate the address pointer from the address list cursor
  afs: Allow dumping of server cursor on operation failure
  afs: Implement YFS support in the fs client
  afs: Expand data structure fields to support YFS
  afs: Get the target vnode in afs_rmdir() and get a callback on it
  afs: Calc callback expiry in op reply delivery
  afs: Fix FS.FetchStatus delivery from updating wrong vnode
  afs: Implement the YFS cache manager service
  afs: Remove callback details from afs_callback_break struct
  afs: Commit the status on a new file/dir/symlink
  afs: Increase to 64-bit volume ID and 96-bit vnode ID for YFS
  afs: Don't invoke the server to read data beyond EOF
  afs: Add a couple of tracepoints to log I/O errors
  afs: Handle EIO from delivery function
  afs: Fix TTL on VL server and address lists
  afs: Implement VL server rotation
  afs: Improve FS server rotation error handling
  ...
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Pull AFS updates from Al Viro:
 "AFS series, with some iov_iter bits included"

* 'work.afs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (26 commits)
  missing bits of "iov_iter: Separate type from direction and use accessor functions"
  afs: Probe multiple fileservers simultaneously
  afs: Fix callback handling
  afs: Eliminate the address pointer from the address list cursor
  afs: Allow dumping of server cursor on operation failure
  afs: Implement YFS support in the fs client
  afs: Expand data structure fields to support YFS
  afs: Get the target vnode in afs_rmdir() and get a callback on it
  afs: Calc callback expiry in op reply delivery
  afs: Fix FS.FetchStatus delivery from updating wrong vnode
  afs: Implement the YFS cache manager service
  afs: Remove callback details from afs_callback_break struct
  afs: Commit the status on a new file/dir/symlink
  afs: Increase to 64-bit volume ID and 96-bit vnode ID for YFS
  afs: Don't invoke the server to read data beyond EOF
  afs: Add a couple of tracepoints to log I/O errors
  afs: Handle EIO from delivery function
  afs: Fix TTL on VL server and address lists
  afs: Implement VL server rotation
  afs: Improve FS server rotation error handling
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>iov_iter: Separate type from direction and use accessor functions</title>
<updated>2018-10-23T23:41:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-19T23:57:56+00:00</published>
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In the iov_iter struct, separate the iterator type from the iterator
direction and use accessor functions to access them in most places.

Convert a bunch of places to use switch-statements to access them rather
then chains of bitwise-AND statements.  This makes it easier to add further
iterator types.  Also, this can be more efficient as to implement a switch
of small contiguous integers, the compiler can use ~50% fewer compare
instructions than it has to use bitwise-and instructions.

Further, cease passing the iterator type into the iterator setup function.
The iterator function can set that itself.  Only the direction is required.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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In the iov_iter struct, separate the iterator type from the iterator
direction and use accessor functions to access them in most places.

Convert a bunch of places to use switch-statements to access them rather
then chains of bitwise-AND statements.  This makes it easier to add further
iterator types.  Also, this can be more efficient as to implement a switch
of small contiguous integers, the compiler can use ~50% fewer compare
instructions than it has to use bitwise-and instructions.

Further, cease passing the iterator type into the iterator setup function.
The iterator function can set that itself.  Only the direction is required.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>9p: potential NULL dereference</title>
<updated>2018-10-10T00:13:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-26T10:39:34+00:00</published>
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p9_tag_alloc() is supposed to return error pointers, but we accidentally
return a NULL here.  It would cause a NULL dereference in the caller.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/m/20180926103934.GA14535@mwanda
Fixes: 996d5b4db4b1 ("9p: Use a slab for allocating requests")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
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p9_tag_alloc() is supposed to return error pointers, but we accidentally
return a NULL here.  It would cause a NULL dereference in the caller.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/m/20180926103934.GA14535@mwanda
Fixes: 996d5b4db4b1 ("9p: Use a slab for allocating requests")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>9p: Add refcount to p9_req_t</title>
<updated>2018-09-07T16:39:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomas Bortoli</name>
<email>tomasbortoli@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-14T17:43:42+00:00</published>
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To avoid use-after-free(s), use a refcount to keep track of the
usable references to any instantiated struct p9_req_t.

This commit adds p9_req_put(), p9_req_get() and p9_req_try_get() as
wrappers to kref_put(), kref_get() and kref_get_unless_zero().
These are used by the client and the transports to keep track of
valid requests' references.

p9_free_req() is added back and used as callback by kref_put().

Add SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU as it ensures that the memory freed by
kmem_cache_free() will not be reused for another type until the rcu
synchronisation period is over, so an address gotten under rcu read
lock is safe to inc_ref() without corrupting random memory while
the lock is held.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1535626341-20693-1-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org
Co-developed-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tomas Bortoli &lt;tomasbortoli@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+467050c1ce275af2a5b8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
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To avoid use-after-free(s), use a refcount to keep track of the
usable references to any instantiated struct p9_req_t.

This commit adds p9_req_put(), p9_req_get() and p9_req_try_get() as
wrappers to kref_put(), kref_get() and kref_get_unless_zero().
These are used by the client and the transports to keep track of
valid requests' references.

p9_free_req() is added back and used as callback by kref_put().

Add SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU as it ensures that the memory freed by
kmem_cache_free() will not be reused for another type until the rcu
synchronisation period is over, so an address gotten under rcu read
lock is safe to inc_ref() without corrupting random memory while
the lock is held.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1535626341-20693-1-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org
Co-developed-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tomas Bortoli &lt;tomasbortoli@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+467050c1ce275af2a5b8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
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<title>9p: rename p9_free_req() function</title>
<updated>2018-09-07T16:39:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomas Bortoli</name>
<email>tomasbortoli@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-11T14:42:53+00:00</published>
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In sight of the next patch to add a refcount in p9_req_t, rename
the p9_free_req() function in p9_release_req().

In the next patch the actual kfree will be moved to another function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180811144254.23665-1-tomasbortoli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Tomas Bortoli &lt;tomasbortoli@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jun Piao &lt;piaojun@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
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In sight of the next patch to add a refcount in p9_req_t, rename
the p9_free_req() function in p9_release_req().

In the next patch the actual kfree will be moved to another function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180811144254.23665-1-tomasbortoli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Tomas Bortoli &lt;tomasbortoli@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jun Piao &lt;piaojun@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>9p: add a per-client fcall kmem_cache</title>
<updated>2018-09-07T16:39:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominique Martinet</name>
<email>dominique.martinet@cea.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-30T06:14:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=91a76be37ff89795526c452a6799576b03bec501'/>
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Having a specific cache for the fcall allocations helps speed up
end-to-end latency.

The caches will automatically be merged if there are multiple caches
of items with the same size so we do not need to try to share a cache
between different clients of the same size.

Since the msize is negotiated with the server, only allocate the cache
after that negotiation has happened - previous allocations or
allocations of different sizes (e.g. zero-copy fcall) are made with
kmalloc directly.

Some figures on two beefy VMs with Connect-IB (sriov) / trans=rdma,
with ior running 32 processes in parallel doing small 32 bytes IOs:
 - no alloc (4.18-rc7 request cache): 65.4k req/s
 - non-power of two alloc, no patch: 61.6k req/s
 - power of two alloc, no patch: 62.2k req/s
 - non-power of two alloc, with patch: 64.7k req/s
 - power of two alloc, with patch: 65.1k req/s

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532943263-24378-2-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Jun Piao &lt;piaojun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kurz &lt;groug@kaod.org&gt;
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Having a specific cache for the fcall allocations helps speed up
end-to-end latency.

The caches will automatically be merged if there are multiple caches
of items with the same size so we do not need to try to share a cache
between different clients of the same size.

Since the msize is negotiated with the server, only allocate the cache
after that negotiation has happened - previous allocations or
allocations of different sizes (e.g. zero-copy fcall) are made with
kmalloc directly.

Some figures on two beefy VMs with Connect-IB (sriov) / trans=rdma,
with ior running 32 processes in parallel doing small 32 bytes IOs:
 - no alloc (4.18-rc7 request cache): 65.4k req/s
 - non-power of two alloc, no patch: 61.6k req/s
 - power of two alloc, no patch: 62.2k req/s
 - non-power of two alloc, with patch: 64.7k req/s
 - power of two alloc, with patch: 65.1k req/s

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532943263-24378-2-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Jun Piao &lt;piaojun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kurz &lt;groug@kaod.org&gt;
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