On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 10:37:45AM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote: > When CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_GUP is defined, the kernel will use its own > get_user_pages_fast(). > > In the following scenario, we will may meet the bug in the DMA case: > ..................... > get_user_pages_fast(start,,, pages); > ...... > sg_alloc_table_from_pages(, pages, ...); > ..................... > > The root cause is that sg_alloc_table_from_pages() requires the > page order to keep the same as it used in the user space, but > get_user_pages_fast() will mess it up.
I don't understand how get_user_pages_fast() can return the pages in a different order in the array from the order they appear in userspace. Can you explain?
