Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: shift VM_GROWS* check from mmap_region() todo_mmap_pgoff()

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Mon Jul 22 2013 - 19:31:21 EST


On Sat, 20 Jul 2013, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> mmap() doesn't allow the non-anonymous mappings with VM_GROWS* bit set.
> In particular this means that mmap_region()->vma_merge(file, vm_flags)
> must always fail if "vm_flags & VM_GROWS" is set incorrectly.
>
> So it does not make sense to check VM_GROWS* after we already allocated
> the new vma, the only caller, do_mmap_pgoff(), which can pass this flag
> can do the check itself.
>
> And this looks a bit more correct, mmap_region() already unmapped the
> old mapping at this stage. But if mmap() is going to fail, it should
> avoid do_munmap() if possible.
>
> Note: we check VM_GROWS at the end to ensure that do_mmap_pgoff() won't
> return EINVAL in the case when it currently returns another error code.
>
> Many thanks to Hugh who nacked the buggy v1.

Aw shucks, no need for that!

>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks fine to me now, thanks Oleg; as do your other two.

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/mmap.c | 10 ++++------
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> index fbad7b0..92d9f54 100644
> --- a/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -1302,6 +1302,8 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
>
> if (!file->f_op || !file->f_op->mmap)
> return -ENODEV;
> + if (vm_flags & (VM_GROWSDOWN|VM_GROWSUP))
> + return -EINVAL;
> break;
>
> default:
> @@ -1310,6 +1312,8 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
> } else {
> switch (flags & MAP_TYPE) {
> case MAP_SHARED:
> + if (vm_flags & (VM_GROWSDOWN|VM_GROWSUP))
> + return -EINVAL;
> /*
> * Ignore pgoff.
> */
> @@ -1544,11 +1548,7 @@ munmap_back:
> vma->vm_pgoff = pgoff;
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain);
>
> - error = -EINVAL; /* when rejecting VM_GROWSDOWN|VM_GROWSUP */
> -
> if (file) {
> - if (vm_flags & (VM_GROWSDOWN|VM_GROWSUP))
> - goto free_vma;
> if (vm_flags & VM_DENYWRITE) {
> error = deny_write_access(file);
> if (error)
> @@ -1573,8 +1573,6 @@ munmap_back:
> pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff;
> vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
> } else if (vm_flags & VM_SHARED) {
> - if (unlikely(vm_flags & (VM_GROWSDOWN|VM_GROWSUP)))
> - goto free_vma;
> error = shmem_zero_setup(vma);
> if (error)
> goto free_vma;
> --
> 1.5.5.1
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