On 10/22/24 22:40, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> After an attempted mmap() fails, we are no longer in a situation where we
> can safely interact with VMA hooks. This is currently not enforced, meaning
> that we need complicated handling to ensure we do not incorrectly call
> these hooks.
>
> We can avoid the whole issue by treating the VMA as suspect the moment that
> the file->f_ops->mmap() function reports an error by replacing whatever VMA
> operations were installed with a dummy empty set of VMA operations.
>
> We do so through a new helper function internal to mm - mmap_file() - which
> is both more logically named than the existing call_mmap() function and
> correctly isolates handling of the vm_op reassignment to mm.
>
> All the existing invocations of call_mmap() outside of mm are ultimately
> nested within the call_mmap() from mm, which we now replace.
>
> It is therefore safe to leave call_mmap() in place as a convenience
> function (and to avoid churn). The invokers are:
>
> ovl_file_operations -> mmap -> ovl_mmap() -> backing_file_mmap()
> coda_file_operations -> mmap -> coda_file_mmap()
> shm_file_operations -> shm_mmap()
> shm_file_operations_huge -> shm_mmap()
> dma_buf_fops -> dma_buf_mmap_internal -> i915_dmabuf_ops
> -> i915_gem_dmabuf_mmap()
>
> None of these callers interact with vm_ops or mappings in a problematic way
> on error, quickly exiting out.
>
> Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: deb0f6562884 ("mm/mmap: undo ->mmap() when arch_validate_flags() fails")
> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
