From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>,
Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org>,
Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
iommu@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vmalloc: reject vmap with VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:03:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221223140312.GA26826@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y6WB2ZGoL7FaFK+f@lucifer>
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 10:24:25AM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> Might it be worth adding a specific vmap mask that explicitly indicates what
> flags are permissible on vmap()? Then this could become e.g.:-
>
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & ~VM_VMAP_PERMITTED_MASK))
> return NULL;
>
> And would be self-documenting as to why we are disallowing flags (i.e. they are
> not part of the permitted vmap mask).
That's probably a good idea. It might need some time to audit
for use of all the flags, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-23 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-23 9:27 revert dma-mapping and vmap API abuse in qcom_q6v5_mss Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-23 9:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] Revert "remoteproc: qcom_q6v5_mss: map/unmap metadata region before/after use" Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-23 14:47 ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2022-12-23 14:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-23 15:40 ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2022-12-23 15:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-23 9:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] vmalloc: reject vmap with VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-23 10:24 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2022-12-23 14:03 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-12-23 14:10 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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