Re: [PATCH v2 -next] x86,vdso: Fix an OOPS accessing the hpet mapping w/o an hpet

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 15 May 2014 11:18:29 +0800 Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > --- a/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
> > @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ static int map_vdso(const struct vdso_image *image, bool calculate_addr)
> >         struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> >         unsigned long addr;
> >         int ret = 0;
> > +       static struct page *no_pages[] = {NULL};
> >
> >         if (calculate_addr) {
> >                 addr = vdso_addr(current->mm->start_stack,
> > @@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ static int map_vdso(const struct vdso_image *image, bool calculate_addr)
> >                                        addr + image->size,
> >                                        image->sym_end_mapping - image->size,
> >                                        VM_READ,
> > -                                      NULL);
> > +                                      no_pages);
> >
> >         if (IS_ERR(vma)) {
> >                 ret = PTR_ERR(vma);
> > --
> > 1.9.0
> >
> As the comment says,
> /*
>  * Called with mm->mmap_sem held for writing.
>  * Insert a new vma covering the given region, with the given flags.
>  * Its pages are supplied by the given array of struct page *.
>  * The array can be shorter than len >> PAGE_SHIFT if it's null-terminated.
>  * The region past the last page supplied will always produce SIGBUS.
>  * The array pointer and the pages it points to are assumed to stay alive
>  * for as long as this mapping might exist.
>  */
> struct vm_area_struct *_install_special_mapping(struct mm_struct *mm,
>    unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
>    unsigned long vm_flags, struct page **pages)
> {
> 
> we can send sigbus at fault time if no pages are supplied at install time.

Yes, but the way to communicate "no pages" is to pass (*pages)==NULL. 
Passing (pages)==NULL causes the code to oops at fault time.

We could easily change the interface so that pages==NULL means "no
pages" but that isn't the way it works at present.

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