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Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:08:07 +0000 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:08:06 +0100 From: Michal Hocko To: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, michel@lespinasse.org, jglisse@google.com, vbabka@suse.cz, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mgorman@techsingularity.net, dave@stgolabs.net, willy@infradead.org, liam.howlett@oracle.com, peterz@infradead.org, ldufour@linux.ibm.com, paulmck@kernel.org, luto@kernel.org, songliubraving@fb.com, peterx@redhat.com, david@redhat.com, dhowells@redhat.com, hughd@google.com, bigeasy@linutronix.de, kent.overstreet@linux.dev, punit.agrawal@bytedance.com, lstoakes@gmail.com, peterjung1337@gmail.com, rientjes@google.com, axelrasmussen@google.com, joelaf@google.com, minchan@google.com, jannh@google.com, shakeelb@google.com, tatashin@google.com, edumazet@google.com, gthelen@google.com, gurua@google.com, arjunroy@google.com, soheil@google.com, hughlynch@google.com, leewalsh@google.com, posk@google.com, will@kernel.org, aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com, npiggin@gmail.com, chenhuacai@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, richard@nod.at, anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net, qianweili@huawei.com, wangzhou1@hisilicon.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, davem@davemloft.net, vkoul@kernel.org, airlied@gmail.com, daniel@ffwll.ch, maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com, mripard@kernel.org, tzimmermann@suse.de, l.stach@pengutronix.de, krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org, patrik.r.jakobsson@gmail.com, matthias.bgg@gmail.com, robdclark@gmail.com, quic_abhinavk@quicinc.com, dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org, tomba@kernel.org, hjc@rock-chips.com, heiko@sntech.de, ray.huang@amd.com, kraxel@redhat.com, sre@kernel.org, mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com, alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com, tfiga@chromium.org, m.szyprowski@samsung.com, mchehab@kernel.org, dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com, zhangfei.gao@linaro.org, jejb@linux.ibm.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, dgilbert@interlog.com, hdegoede@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com, deller@gmx.de, jayalk@intworks.biz, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, nico@fluxnic.net, xiang@kernel.org, chao@kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, miklos@szeredi.hu, mike.kravetz@oracle.com, muchun.song@linux.dev, bhe@redhat.com, andrii@kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, dsahern@kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, perex@perex.cz, tiwai@suse.com, haojian.zhuang@gmail.com, robert.jarzmik@free.fr, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, nvdimm@lists.linux.dev, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, etnaviv@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, freedreno@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-accelerators@lists.ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, devel@lists.orangefs.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, selinux@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, kernel-team@android.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] mm: replace vma->vm_flags indirect modification in ksm_madvise Message-ID: References: <20230125083851.27759-1-surenb@google.com> <20230125083851.27759-5-surenb@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed 25-01-23 08:57:48, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 1:38 AM 'Michal Hocko' via kernel-team > wrote: > > > > On Wed 25-01-23 00:38:49, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > > > Replace indirect modifications to vma->vm_flags with calls to modifier > > > functions to be able to track flag changes and to keep vma locking > > > correctness. Add a BUG_ON check in ksm_madvise() to catch indirect > > > vm_flags modification attempts. > > > > Those BUG_ONs scream to much IMHO. KSM is an MM internal code so I > > gueess we should be willing to trust it. > > Yes, but I really want to prevent an indirect misuse since it was not > easy to find these. If you feel strongly about it I will remove them > or if you have a better suggestion I'm all for it. You can avoid that by making flags inaccesible directly, right? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs