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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Li Xinhai <lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mm: Fix misuse of parent anon_vma in dup_mmap path
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 18:25:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200401182559.e5d988f6491537f31323cb2c@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1581150928-3214-1-git-send-email-lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com>

On Sat,  8 Feb 2020 08:35:25 +0000 Li Xinhai <lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com> wrote:

> This patchset fix the misuse of parenet anon_vma, which mainly caused by
> child vma's vm_next and vm_prev are left same as its parent after
> duplicate vma. Finally, code reached parent vma's neighbor by referring
> pointer of child vma and executed wrong logic.
> 
> The first two patches fix relevant issues, and the third patch sets vm_next
> and vm_prev to NULL when duplicate vma to prevent potential misuse in future. 
> 
> Li Xinhai (3):
>   mm: don't prepare anon_vma if vma has VM_WIPEONFORK
>   Revert "mm/rmap.c: reuse mergeable anon_vma as parent when fork"
>   mm: set vm_next and vm_prev to NULL in vm_area_dup()
> 
>  kernel/fork.c | 10 ++++++----
>  mm/rmap.c     | 13 -------------
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Can we please have some review input on this series?


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-02  1:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-08  8:35 [PATCH 0/3] mm: Fix misuse of parent anon_vma in dup_mmap path Li Xinhai
2020-02-08  8:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: don't prepare anon_vma if vma has VM_WIPEONFORK Li Xinhai
2020-02-08  8:53   ` Li Xinhai
2020-04-02 13:45   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-02-08  8:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] Revert "mm/rmap.c: reuse mergeable anon_vma as parent when fork" Li Xinhai
2020-04-02 13:59   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-04-03  3:08     ` Li Xinhai
2020-04-05  1:26       ` Li Xinhai
2020-02-08  8:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: set vm_next and vm_prev to NULL in vm_area_dup() Li Xinhai
2020-04-02 14:07   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-02-10  0:52 ` [PATCH 0/3] mm: Fix misuse of parent anon_vma in dup_mmap path Andrew Morton
2020-02-10  2:15   ` Li Xinhai
2020-04-20 12:06     ` Michal Hocko
2020-04-21  3:53       ` Li Xinhai
2020-04-21  7:26         ` Michal Hocko
2020-04-02  1:25 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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