Re: [PATCH] vma: Detect infinite loop in vma tree

["Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>]

* Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> [241031 13:01]:
> From: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
> 
> There have been no reported infinite loops in the tree, but checking the
> detection of an infinite loop during validation is simple enough.  Add
> the detection to the validate_mm() function so that error reports are
> clear and don't just report stalls.
> 
> This does not protect against internal maple tree issues, but it does
> detect too many vmas being returned from the tree.

I should add:

This patch does have the downside of making the count difference less
useful (we will only see one extra as apposed to what may exist).

> 
> Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
> ---
>  mm/vma.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vma.c b/mm/vma.c
> index 68138e8c153e..60ed8cc187ad 100644
> --- a/mm/vma.c
> +++ b/mm/vma.c
> @@ -615,7 +615,8 @@ void validate_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  			anon_vma_unlock_read(anon_vma);
>  		}
>  #endif
> -		i++;
> +		if (++i > mm->map_count)
> +			break;
>  	}
>  	if (i != mm->map_count) {
>  		pr_emerg("map_count %d vma iterator %d\n", mm->map_count, i);
> -- 
> 2.43.0
>