From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd: non-cooperative: notify about unmap of destination during mremap
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 09:46:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170717064620.GB6815@rapoport-lnx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1500272293-17174-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 09:18:13AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> When mremap is called with MREMAP_FIXED it unmaps memory at the destination
> address without notifying userfaultfd monitor. If the destination were
> registered with userfaultfd, the monitor has no way to distinguish between
> the old and new ranges and to properly relate the page faults that would
> occur in the destination region.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 897ab3e0c49e ("userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add event for memory
> unmaps")
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
Please discard this patch. I completely missed that
userfaultfd_unmap_complete releases mmap_sem :(
> mm/mremap.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
> index cd8a1b199ef9..eb36ef9410e4 100644
> --- a/mm/mremap.c
> +++ b/mm/mremap.c
> @@ -446,9 +446,14 @@ static unsigned long mremap_to(unsigned long addr, unsigned long old_len,
> if (addr + old_len > new_addr && new_addr + new_len > addr)
> goto out;
>
> - ret = do_munmap(mm, new_addr, new_len, NULL);
> + /*
> + * We presume the uf_unmap list is empty by this point and it
> + * will be cleared again in userfaultfd_unmap_complete.
> + */
> + ret = do_munmap(mm, new_addr, new_len, uf_unmap);
> if (ret)
> goto out;
> + userfaultfd_unmap_complete(mm, uf_unmap);
>
> if (old_len >= new_len) {
> ret = do_munmap(mm, addr+new_len, old_len - new_len, uf_unmap);
> --
> 2.7.4
>
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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