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| author | Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> | 2022-01-14 14:06:37 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-01-15 16:30:28 +0200 |
| commit | df4e817b710809425d899340dbfa8504a3ca4ba5 (patch) | |
| tree | 41d32337efd05f52972c7abf5db17503f841b351 /Documentation/vm/index.rst | |
| parent | 08d5b29eac7dd5e6c79b66d390ecbb9219e05931 (diff) | |
mm: page table check
Check user page table entries at the time they are added and removed.
Allows to synchronously catch memory corruption issues related to double
mapping.
When a pte for an anonymous page is added into page table, we verify
that this pte does not already point to a file backed page, and vice
versa if this is a file backed page that is being added we verify that
this page does not have an anonymous mapping
We also enforce that read-only sharing for anonymous pages is allowed
(i.e. cow after fork). All other sharing must be for file pages.
Page table check allows to protect and debug cases where "struct page"
metadata became corrupted for some reason. For example, when refcnt or
mapcount become invalid.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211221154650.1047963-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/index.rst b/Documentation/vm/index.rst index b1826ca2c576..932440805453 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/index.rst @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ algorithms. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory, see the page_migration page_frags page_owner + page_table_check remap_file_pages slub split_page_table_lock |