Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Do not allow non-MAP_FIXED mapping across DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW border

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 04:43:26PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 
> > In case of 5-level paging, we don't put any mapping above 47-bit, unless
> > userspace explicitly asked for it.
> > 
> > Userspace can ask for allocation from full address space by specifying
> > hint address above 47-bit.
> > 
> > Nicholas noticed that current implementation violates this interface:
> > we can get vma partly in high addresses if we ask for a mapping at very
> > end of 47-bit address space.
> > 
> > Let's make sure that, when consider hint address for non-MAP_FIXED
> > mapping, start and end of resulting vma are on the same side of 47-bit
> > border.
> 
> What happens for mappings with MAP_FIXED which cross the border?

It will succeed with 5-level paging.

It should be safe as with 4-level paging such request would fail and it's
reasonable to expect that userspace is not relying on the failure to
function properly.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov