2013/5/24 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, 23 May 2013 14:25:48 +0900 HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> This patch introduces mmap_vmcore().
>
> Don't permit writable nor executable mapping even with mprotect()
> because this mmap() is aimed at reading crash dump memory.
> Non-writable mapping is also requirement of remap_pfn_range() when
> mapping linear pages on non-consecutive physical pages; see
> is_cow_mapping().
>
> Set VM_MIXEDMAP flag to remap memory by remap_pfn_range and by
> remap_vmalloc_range_pertial at the same time for a single
> vma. do_munmap() can correctly clean partially remapped vma with two
> functions in abnormal case. See zap_pte_range(), vm_normal_page() and
> their comments for details.
>
> On x86-32 PAE kernels, mmap() supports at most 16TB memory only. This
> limitation comes from the fact that the third argument of
> remap_pfn_range(), pfn, is of 32-bit length on x86-32: unsigned long.

More reviewing and testing, please.


Do you have git pull for both kernel and userland changes? I would like to do some more testing on my machines.

Maxim.
 

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: vmcore-support-mmap-on-proc-vmcore-fix

use min(), switch to conventional error-unwinding approach

Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/proc/vmcore.c |   27 ++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/proc/vmcore.c~vmcore-support-mmap-on-proc-vmcore-fix fs/proc/vmcore.c
--- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c~vmcore-support-mmap-on-proc-vmcore-fix
+++ a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
@@ -218,9 +218,7 @@ static int mmap_vmcore(struct file *file
        if (start < elfcorebuf_sz) {
                u64 pfn;

-               tsz = elfcorebuf_sz - start;
-               if (size < tsz)
-                       tsz = size;
+               tsz = min(elfcorebuf_sz - (size_t)start, size);
                pfn = __pa(elfcorebuf + start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
                if (remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start, pfn, tsz,
                                    vma->vm_page_prot))
@@ -236,15 +234,11 @@ static int mmap_vmcore(struct file *file
        if (start < elfcorebuf_sz + elfnotes_sz) {
                void *kaddr;

-               tsz = elfcorebuf_sz + elfnotes_sz - start;
-               if (size < tsz)
-                       tsz = size;
+               tsz = min(elfcorebuf_sz + elfnotes_sz - (size_t)start, size);
                kaddr = elfnotes_buf + start - elfcorebuf_sz;
                if (remap_vmalloc_range_partial(vma, vma->vm_start + len,
-                                               kaddr, tsz)) {
-                       do_munmap(vma->vm_mm, vma->vm_start, len);
-                       return -EAGAIN;
-               }
+                                               kaddr, tsz))
+                       goto fail;
                size -= tsz;
                start += tsz;
                len += tsz;
@@ -257,16 +251,12 @@ static int mmap_vmcore(struct file *file
                if (start < m->offset + m->size) {
                        u64 paddr = 0;

-                       tsz = m->offset + m->size - start;
-                       if (size < tsz)
-                               tsz = size;
+                       tsz = min_t(size_t, m->offset + m->size - start, size);
                        paddr = m->paddr + start - m->offset;
                        if (remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start + len,
                                            paddr >> PAGE_SHIFT, tsz,
-                                           vma->vm_page_prot)) {
-                               do_munmap(vma->vm_mm, vma->vm_start, len);
-                               return -EAGAIN;
-                       }
+                                           vma->vm_page_prot))
+                               goto fail;
                        size -= tsz;
                        start += tsz;
                        len += tsz;
@@ -277,6 +267,9 @@ static int mmap_vmcore(struct file *file
        }

        return 0;
+fail:
+       do_munmap(vma->vm_mm, vma->vm_start, len);
+       return -EAGAIN;
 }

 static const struct file_operations proc_vmcore_operations = {
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