Re: [PATCH 1/3] uprobes: valid_vma() should reject VM_HUGETLB

[Srikar Dronamraju]

* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> [2012-06-07 19:00:02]:

> __replace_page() obviously can't work with the hugetlbfs mappings,
> uprobe_register() will likely crash the kernel. Change valid_vma()
> to check VM_HUGETLB as well.
> 
> As for PageTransHuge() no need to worry, vma->vm_file != NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/events/uprobes.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> index 6e3b181..48d53af 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> @@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ static bool valid_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, bool is_register)
>  	if (!is_register)
>  		return true;
> 
> -	if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED)) == (VM_READ|VM_EXEC))
> +	if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_HUGETLB|VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED))
> +				== (VM_READ|VM_EXEC))
>  		return true;
> 
>  	return false;

Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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