From: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org (Ard Biesheuvel)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v5] mm: huge-vmap: fail gracefully on unexpected huge vmap mappings
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 09:27:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu_te54d9VU9AKYevkOvSpCBBeDQy5PE+PhX-t=ka3L8JA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170609092209.GA10665@leverpostej>
On 9 June 2017 at 09:22, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 08:22:26AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> Existing code that uses vmalloc_to_page() may assume that any
>> address for which is_vmalloc_addr() returns true may be passed
>> into vmalloc_to_page() to retrieve the associated struct page.
>>
>> This is not un unreasonable assumption to make, but on architectures
>> that have CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP=y, it no longer holds, and we
>> need to ensure that vmalloc_to_page() does not go off into the weeds
>> trying to dereference huge PUDs or PMDs as table entries.
>>
>> Given that vmalloc() and vmap() themselves never create huge
>> mappings or deal with compound pages at all, there is no correct
>> answer in this case, so return NULL instead, and issue a warning.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
>> ---
>> v5: - fix typo
>>
>> v4: - use pud_bad/pmd_bad instead of pud_huge/pmd_huge, which don't require
>> changes to hugetlb.h, and give us what we need on all architectures
>> - move WARN_ON_ONCE() calls out of conditionals
^^^
>> - add explanatory comment
>>
>> mm/vmalloc.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
>> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
>> index 34a1c3e46ed7..0fcd371266a4 100644
>> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
>> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
>> @@ -287,10 +287,21 @@ struct page *vmalloc_to_page(const void *vmalloc_addr)
>> if (p4d_none(*p4d))
>> return NULL;
>> pud = pud_offset(p4d, addr);
>> - if (pud_none(*pud))
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * Don't dereference bad PUD or PMD (below) entries. This will also
>> + * identify huge mappings, which we may encounter on architectures
>> + * that define CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP=y. Such regions will be
>> + * identified as vmalloc addresses by is_vmalloc_addr(), but are
>> + * not [unambiguously] associated with a struct page, so there is
>> + * no correct value to return for them.
>> + */
>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(pud_bad(*pud));
>> + if (pud_none(*pud) || pud_bad(*pud))
>> return NULL;
>
> Nit: the WARN_ON_ONCE() can be folded into the conditional:
>
> if (pud_none(*pud) || WARN_ON_ONCE(pud_bad(*pud)))
> reutrn NULL;
>
>> pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
>> - if (pmd_none(*pmd))
>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(pmd_bad(*pmd));
>> + if (pmd_none(*pmd) || pmd_bad(*pmd))
>> return NULL;
>
> Likewise here.
>
Actually, it was Dave who requested them to be taken out of the conditional.
> Otherwise, looks good to me. FWIW:
>
> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
>
Thanks,
Ard.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-09 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-09 8:22 [PATCH v5] mm: huge-vmap: fail gracefully on unexpected huge vmap mappings Ard Biesheuvel
2017-06-09 9:22 ` Mark Rutland
2017-06-09 9:27 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2017-06-09 9:29 ` Mark Rutland
2017-06-09 18:13 ` Laura Abbott
2017-06-15 21:24 ` Andrew Morton
2017-06-15 22:11 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-06-15 22:16 ` Andrew Morton
2017-06-15 22:29 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-06-16 8:38 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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