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| author | Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> | 2013-02-22 16:32:46 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-02-23 17:50:11 -0800 |
| commit | 1869305009857cdeaabe6283bcdc2359c5784543 (patch) | |
| tree | a8a500c71e7aa3a645322635f3d591c16601af27 /mm/mmap.c | |
| parent | cea10a19b7972a1954c4a2d05a7de8db48b444fb (diff) | |
mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to better deal with racy userspace programs
The vm_populate() code populates user mappings without constantly
holding the mmap_sem. This makes it susceptible to racy userspace
programs: the user mappings may change while vm_populate() is running,
and in this case vm_populate() may end up populating the new mapping
instead of the old one.
In order to reduce the possibility of userspace getting surprised by
this behavior, this change introduces the VM_POPULATE vma flag which
gets set on vmas we want vm_populate() to work on. This way
vm_populate() may still end up populating the new mapping after such a
race, but only if the new mapping is also one that the user has
requested (using MAP_SHARED, MAP_LOCKED or mlock) to be populated.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gregungerer@westnet.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mmap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mmap.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 8826c77513a..39a3944e165 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1306,9 +1306,7 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, } addr = mmap_region(file, addr, len, vm_flags, pgoff); - if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(addr) && - ((vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) || - (flags & (MAP_POPULATE | MAP_NONBLOCK)) == MAP_POPULATE)) + if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(addr) && (vm_flags & VM_POPULATE)) *populate = true; return addr; } |