From 09a9f1d27892255cfb9c91203f19476765e2d8d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michel Lespinasse Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:26:23 -0700 Subject: Revert "mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to better deal with racy userspace programs" This reverts commit 186930500985 ("mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to better deal with racy userspace programs"). VM_POPULATE only has any effect when userspace plays racy games with vmas by trying to unmap and remap memory regions that mmap or mlock are operating on. Also, the only effect of VM_POPULATE when userspace plays such games is that it avoids populating new memory regions that get remapped into the address range that was being operated on by the original mmap or mlock calls. Let's remove VM_POPULATE as there isn't any strong argument to mandate a new vm_flag. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mmap.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/mmap.c') diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 2664a47cec93..6466699b16cb 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1306,7 +1306,9 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, } addr = mmap_region(file, addr, len, vm_flags, pgoff); - if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(addr) && (vm_flags & VM_POPULATE)) + if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(addr) && + ((vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) || + (flags & (MAP_POPULATE | MAP_NONBLOCK)) == MAP_POPULATE)) *populate = len; return addr; } -- cgit From b6a9b7f6b1f21735a7456d534dc0e68e61359d2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Stancek Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 11:35:10 -0700 Subject: mm: prevent mmap_cache race in find_vma() find_vma() can be called by multiple threads with read lock held on mm->mmap_sem and any of them can update mm->mmap_cache. Prevent compiler from re-fetching mm->mmap_cache, because other readers could update it in the meantime: thread 1 thread 2 | find_vma() | find_vma() struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL; | vma = mm->mmap_cache; | if (!(vma && vma->vm_end > addr | && vma->vm_start <= addr)) { | | mm->mmap_cache = vma; return vma; | ^^ compiler may optimize this | local variable out and re-read | mm->mmap_cache | This issue can be reproduced with gcc-4.8.0-1 on s390x by running mallocstress testcase from LTP, which triggers: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1088! Call Trace: ([<000003d100c57000>] 0x3d100c57000) [<000000000023a1c0>] do_wp_page+0x2fc/0xa88 [<000000000023baae>] handle_pte_fault+0x41a/0xac8 [<000000000023d832>] handle_mm_fault+0x17a/0x268 [<000000000060507a>] do_protection_exception+0x1e2/0x394 [<0000000000603a04>] pgm_check_handler+0x138/0x13c [<000003fffcf1f07a>] 0x3fffcf1f07a Last Breaking-Event-Address: [<000000000024755e>] page_add_new_anon_rmap+0xc2/0x168 Thanks to Jakub Jelinek for his insight on gcc and helping to track this down. Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mmap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/mmap.c') diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 6466699b16cb..0db0de1c2fbe 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1940,7 +1940,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *find_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) /* Check the cache first. */ /* (Cache hit rate is typically around 35%.) */ - vma = mm->mmap_cache; + vma = ACCESS_ONCE(mm->mmap_cache); if (!(vma && vma->vm_end > addr && vma->vm_start <= addr)) { struct rb_node *rb_node; -- cgit