From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org, "Alex Deucher" <alexander.deucher@amd.com>, "Alex Thorlton" <athorlton@sgi.com>, "Andrea Arcangeli" <aarcange@redhat.com>, "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@amacapital.net>, "Benjamin LaHaise" <bcrl@kvack.org>, "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>, "Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter@intel.com>, "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, "David Airlie" <airlied@linux.ie>, "Davidlohr Bueso" <dave@stgolabs.net>, "David Rientjes" <rientjes@google.com>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, "Hugh Dickins" <hughd@google.com>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>, "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>, "Konstantin Khlebnikov" <koct9i@gmail.com>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, "Mel Gorman" <mgorman@suse.de>, "Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/18] mm, aout: handle vm_brk failures Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:42:01 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20160311124201.GK27701@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw) In-Reply-To: <56E29ECA.5050809@suse.cz> On Fri 11-03-16 11:32:42, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > On 02/29/2016 02:26 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > >From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > > > >vm_brk is allowed to fail but load_aout_binary simply ignores the error > >and happily continues. I haven't noticed any problem from that in real > >life but later patches will make the failure more likely because > >vm_brk will become killable (resp. mmap_sem for write waiting will become > >killable) so we should be more careful now. > > > >The error handling should be quite straightforward because there are > >calls to vm_mmap which check the error properly already. The only > >notable exception is set_brk which is called after beyond_if label. > >But nothing indicates that we cannot move it above set_binfmt as the two > >do not depend on each other and fail before we do set_binfmt and alter > >reference counting. > > > >Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > >Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> > >Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> > >Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> > >Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > > Acked--by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> thanks! > > [...] > > >@@ -378,7 +381,9 @@ static int load_aout_library(struct file *file) > > "N_TXTOFF is not page aligned. Please convert library: %pD\n", > > file); > > } > >- vm_brk(start_addr, ex.a_text + ex.a_data + ex.a_bss); > >+ retval = vm_brk(start_addr, ex.a_text + ex.a_data + ex.a_bss); > >+ if (IS_ERR_VALUE(retval)) > >+ goto out; > > > > You could have removed the extra whitespace on the line above, which my vim > so prominently highlights :) Fixed > > > read_code(file, start_addr, N_TXTOFF(ex), > > ex.a_text + ex.a_data); > > -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org, "Alex Deucher" <alexander.deucher@amd.com>, "Alex Thorlton" <athorlton@sgi.com>, "Andrea Arcangeli" <aarcange@redhat.com>, "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@amacapital.net>, "Benjamin LaHaise" <bcrl@kvack.org>, "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>, "Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter@intel.com>, "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, "David Airlie" <airlied@linux.ie>, "Davidlohr Bueso" <dave@stgolabs.net>, "David Rientjes" <rientjes@google.com>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, "Hugh Dickins" <hughd@google.com>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>, "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>, "Konstantin Khlebnikov" <koct9i@gmail.com>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, "Mel Gorman" <mgorman@suse.de>, "Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@redhat.com>, "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>, "Petr Cermak" <petrcermak@chromium.org>, "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>, "Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/18] mm, aout: handle vm_brk failures Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:42:01 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20160311124201.GK27701@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw) Message-ID: <20160311124201.ocWanXFzbC6MHzzD0EAGotpocGzaIJw35Pz9Xt1Biyo@z> (raw) In-Reply-To: <56E29ECA.5050809@suse.cz> On Fri 11-03-16 11:32:42, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > On 02/29/2016 02:26 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > >From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > > > >vm_brk is allowed to fail but load_aout_binary simply ignores the error > >and happily continues. I haven't noticed any problem from that in real > >life but later patches will make the failure more likely because > >vm_brk will become killable (resp. mmap_sem for write waiting will become > >killable) so we should be more careful now. > > > >The error handling should be quite straightforward because there are > >calls to vm_mmap which check the error properly already. The only > >notable exception is set_brk which is called after beyond_if label. > >But nothing indicates that we cannot move it above set_binfmt as the two > >do not depend on each other and fail before we do set_binfmt and alter > >reference counting. > > > >Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > >Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> > >Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> > >Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> > >Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > > Acked--by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> thanks! > > [...] > > >@@ -378,7 +381,9 @@ static int load_aout_library(struct file *file) > > "N_TXTOFF is not page aligned. Please convert library: %pD\n", > > file); > > } > >- vm_brk(start_addr, ex.a_text + ex.a_data + ex.a_bss); > >+ retval = vm_brk(start_addr, ex.a_text + ex.a_data + ex.a_bss); > >+ if (IS_ERR_VALUE(retval)) > >+ goto out; > > > > You could have removed the extra whitespace on the line above, which my vim > so prominently highlights :) Fixed > > > read_code(file, start_addr, N_TXTOFF(ex), > > ex.a_text + ex.a_data); > > -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-11 12:42 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 138+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2016-02-29 13:26 [PATCH 0/18] change mmap_sem taken for write killable Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 01/18] mm: Make mmap_sem for write waits killable for mm syscalls Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:44 ` kbuild test robot 2016-02-29 13:44 ` kbuild test robot 2016-02-29 13:44 ` kbuild test robot 2016-02-29 13:44 ` kbuild test robot 2016-03-10 15:47 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-10 15:47 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-10 15:56 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-10 15:56 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 02/18] mm: make vm_mmap killable Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-11 9:59 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 9:59 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 12:12 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-11 12:12 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-11 12:43 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 12:43 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 12:55 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-11 12:55 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 03/18] mm: make vm_munmap killable Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-11 10:06 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 10:06 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 12:32 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-11 12:32 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 04/18] mm, aout: handle vm_brk failures Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-11 10:32 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 10:32 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 12:42 ` Michal Hocko [this message] 2016-03-11 12:42 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 05/18] mm, elf: handle vm_brk error Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-11 10:35 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 10:35 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 06/18] mm: make vm_brk killable Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-11 10:44 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 10:44 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 07/18] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:47 ` kbuild test robot 2016-02-29 13:47 ` kbuild test robot 2016-02-29 17:38 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 17:38 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 17:53 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 17:53 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 17:58 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 17:58 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 18:02 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 18:02 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 08/18] mm, fork: make dup_mmap wait for mmap_sem for write killable Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:48 ` kbuild test robot 2016-02-29 13:48 ` kbuild test robot 2016-02-29 17:54 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 17:54 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 09/18] ipc, shm: make shmem attach/detach wait for mmap_sem killable Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-08 19:15 ` Davidlohr Bueso 2016-03-08 19:15 ` Davidlohr Bueso 2016-03-09 10:16 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-09 10:16 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 10/18] vdso: make arch_setup_additional_pages wait for mmap_sem for write killable Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:45 ` kbuild test robot 2016-02-29 13:45 ` kbuild test robot 2016-02-29 13:50 ` kbuild test robot 2016-02-29 13:50 ` kbuild test robot 2016-02-29 13:53 ` kbuild test robot 2016-02-29 13:53 ` kbuild test robot 2016-02-29 15:41 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-02-29 15:41 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-03-11 11:28 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 11:28 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 11/18] coredump: make coredump_wait wait for mma_sem " Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 15:57 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 15:57 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-03-11 11:32 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 11:32 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 11:54 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 11:54 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 12:46 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-11 12:46 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 12/18] aio: make aio_setup_ring killable Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 16:17 ` Jeff Moyer 2016-02-29 16:17 ` Jeff Moyer 2016-03-11 11:57 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 11:57 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 13/18] exec: make exec path waiting for mmap_sem killable Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 17:23 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 17:23 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 17:47 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 17:47 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 18:10 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 18:10 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-03-11 12:51 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 12:51 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 14/18] prctl: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE wait " Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-11 12:54 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 12:54 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 15/18] uprobes: wait for mmap_sem for write killable Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 15:57 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 15:57 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 16:28 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 16:28 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 17:12 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 17:12 ` Oleg Nesterov 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 16/18] drm/i915: make i915_gem_mmap_ioctl wait for mmap_sem killable Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-11 15:23 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 15:23 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 17/18] drm/radeon: make radeon_mn_get " Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:35 ` Christian König 2016-02-29 13:35 ` Christian König 2016-03-11 15:27 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 15:27 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-02-29 13:26 ` [PATCH 18/18] drm/amdgpu: make amdgpu_mn_get " Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:26 ` Michal Hocko 2016-03-11 15:29 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-03-11 15:29 ` Vlastimil Babka 2016-02-29 13:31 ` [PATCH 0/18] change mmap_sem taken for write killable Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 13:31 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 14:04 ` Kirill A. Shutemov 2016-02-29 14:04 ` Kirill A. Shutemov 2016-02-29 14:16 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 14:16 ` Michal Hocko 2016-02-29 15:03 ` Kirill A. Shutemov 2016-02-29 15:03 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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