Re: [PATCH v2] android: binder: fix binder mmap failures

[David Rientjes]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:

> binder_update_page_range() initializes only addr and size
> fields in 'struct vm_struct tmp_area;' and passes it to
> map_vm_area().
> 
> Before 71394fe50146 ("mm: vmalloc: add flag preventing guard hole allocation")
> this was because map_vm_area() didn't use any other fields
> in vm_struct except addr and size.
> 
> Now get_vm_area_size() (used in map_vm_area()) reads vm_struct's
> flags to determine whether vm area has guard hole or not.
> 
> binder_update_page_range() don't initialize flags field, so
> this causes following binder mmap failures:
> -----------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1971 at mm/vmalloc.c:130
> vmap_page_range_noflush+0x119/0x144()
> CPU: 0 PID: 1971 Comm: healthd Not tainted 4.0.0-rc1-00399-g7da3fdc-dirty #157
> Hardware name: ARM-Versatile Express
> [<c001246d>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c000f7f9>] (show_stack+0x11/0x14)
> [<c000f7f9>] (show_stack) from [<c049a221>] (dump_stack+0x59/0x7c)
> [<c049a221>] (dump_stack) from [<c001cf21>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x55/0x84)
> [<c001cf21>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c001cfe3>]
> (warn_slowpath_null+0x17/0x1c)
> [<c001cfe3>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<c00c66c5>]
> (vmap_page_range_noflush+0x119/0x144)
> [<c00c66c5>] (vmap_page_range_noflush) from [<c00c716b>] (map_vm_area+0x27/0x48)
> [<c00c716b>] (map_vm_area) from [<c038ddaf>]
> (binder_update_page_range+0x12f/0x27c)
> [<c038ddaf>] (binder_update_page_range) from [<c038e857>]
> (binder_mmap+0xbf/0x1ac)
> [<c038e857>] (binder_mmap) from [<c00c2dc7>] (mmap_region+0x2eb/0x4d4)
> [<c00c2dc7>] (mmap_region) from [<c00c3197>] (do_mmap_pgoff+0x1e7/0x250)
> [<c00c3197>] (do_mmap_pgoff) from [<c00b35b5>] (vm_mmap_pgoff+0x45/0x60)
> [<c00b35b5>] (vm_mmap_pgoff) from [<c00c1f39>] (SyS_mmap_pgoff+0x5d/0x80)
> [<c00c1f39>] (SyS_mmap_pgoff) from [<c000ce81>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x5c)
> ---[ end trace 48c2c4b9a1349e54 ]---
> binder: 1982: binder_alloc_buf failed to map page at f0e00000 in kernel
> binder: binder_mmap: 1982 b6bde000-b6cdc000 alloc small buf failed -12
> 
> Use map_kernel_range_noflush() instead of map_vm_area() as this is better
> API for binder's purposes and it allows to get rid of 'vm_struct tmp_area' at all.
> 
> Fixes: 71394fe50146 ("mm: vmalloc: add flag preventing guard hole allocation")
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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