From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/3] mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 13:49:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YTILrVHLMBky9YjP@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJuCfpHWCtqCcuZdyfc4-virtynOMv2f_iU=OJUB_6b2Xz+k9g@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed 01-09-21 08:42:29, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 1:10 AM 'Michal Hocko' via kernel-team
> <kernel-team@android.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri 27-08-21 12:18:57, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > [...]
> > > +static void replace_vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma, const char *name)
> > > +{
> > > + if (!name) {
> > > + free_vma_anon_name(vma);
> > > + return;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + if (vma->anon_name) {
> > > + /* Should never happen, to dup use dup_vma_anon_name() */
> > > + WARN_ON(vma->anon_name == name);
> >
> > What is the point of this warning?
>
> I wanted to make sure replace_vma_anon_name() is not used from inside
> vm_area_dup() or some similar place (does not exist today but maybe in
> the future) where "new" vma is a copy of "orig" vma and
> new->anon_name==orig->anon_name. If someone by mistake calls
> replace_vma_anon_name(new, orig->anon_name) and
> new->anon_name==orig->anon_name then they will keep pointing to the
> same name pointer, which breaks an assumption that ->anon_name
> pointers are not shared among vmas even if the string is the same.
> That would eventually lead to use-after-free error. After the next
> patch implementing refcounting, the similar situation would lead to
> both new and orig vma pointing to the same anon_vma_name structure
> without raising the refcount, which would also lead to use-after-free
> error. That's why the above comment asks to use dup_vma_anon_name() if
> this warning ever happens.
> I can remove the warning but I thought the problem is subtle enough to
> put some safeguards.
This to me sounds very much like a debugging code that shouldn't make it
to the final patch to be merged. I do see your point of an early
diagnostic but we are talking about an internal MM code and that is not
really designed to be robust against its own failures so I do not see
why this should be any special.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-03 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-27 19:18 [PATCH v8 0/3] Anonymous VMA naming patches Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-08-27 19:18 ` [PATCH v8 1/3] mm: rearrange madvise code to allow for reuse Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-08-28 0:14 ` Kees Cook
2021-08-28 0:58 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-08-28 16:19 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2021-08-28 21:59 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-08-27 19:18 ` [PATCH v8 2/3] mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-08-28 1:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-28 5:52 ` Kees Cook
2021-08-28 21:47 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-08-30 8:12 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2021-08-30 16:16 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-08-30 16:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-31 17:21 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-08-28 21:28 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2021-08-28 21:53 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-09-01 8:09 ` Michal Hocko
2021-09-01 15:28 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-09-01 8:10 ` Michal Hocko
2021-09-01 15:42 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-09-03 11:49 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2021-09-03 15:47 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-08-27 19:18 ` [PATCH v8 3/3] mm: add anonymous vma name refcounting Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-08-28 5:28 ` Kees Cook
2021-08-28 21:13 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-08-30 7:03 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2021-08-30 16:12 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-08-28 12:48 ` [PATCH v8 0/3] Anonymous VMA naming patches Pavel Machek
2021-08-28 22:06 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
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