Re: [PATCH 05/16] mm: Protect VMA modifications using VMA sequence count

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Wed Aug 09 2017 - 06:12:50 EST


On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 04:35:38PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> The VMA sequence count has been introduced to allow fast detection of
> VMA modification when running a page fault handler without holding
> the mmap_sem.
>
> This patch provides protection agains the VMA modification done in :
> - madvise()
> - mremap()
> - mpol_rebind_policy()
> - vma_replace_policy()
> - change_prot_numa()
> - mlock(), munlock()
> - mprotect()
> - mmap_region()
> - collapse_huge_page()

I don't thinks it's anywhere near complete list of places where we touch
vm_flags. What is your plan for the rest?
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Kirill A. Shutemov