On Mon 13-11-17 09:35:22, Khalid Aziz wrote: > On 11/13/2017 09:06 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > > OK, so this one should take care of the backward compatibility while > > still not touching the arch code > > --- > > commit 39ff9bf8597e79a032da0954aea1f0d77d137765 > > Author: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > > Date: Mon Nov 13 17:06:24 2017 +0100 > > > > mm: introduce MAP_FIXED_SAFE > > MAP_FIXED is used quite often but it is inherently dangerous because it > > unmaps an existing mapping covered by the requested range. While this > > might be might be really desidered behavior in many cases there are > > others which would rather see a failure than a silent memory corruption. > > Introduce a new MAP_FIXED_SAFE flag for mmap to achive this behavior. > > It is a MAP_FIXED extension with a single exception that it fails with > > ENOMEM if the requested address is already covered by an existing > > mapping. We still do rely on get_unmaped_area to handle all the arch > > specific MAP_FIXED treatment and check for a conflicting vma after it > > returns. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > > > > ...... deleted ....... > > diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c > > index 680506faceae..aad8d37f0205 100644 > > --- a/mm/mmap.c > > +++ b/mm/mmap.c > > @@ -1358,6 +1358,10 @@ unsigned long do_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, > > if (mm->map_count > sysctl_max_map_count) > > return -ENOMEM; > > + /* force arch specific MAP_FIXED handling in get_unmapped_area */ > > + if (flags & MAP_FIXED_SAFE) > > + flags |= MAP_FIXED; > > + > > /* Obtain the address to map to. we verify (or select) it and ensure > > * that it represents a valid section of the address space. > > */ > > Do you need to move this code above: > > if (!(flags & MAP_FIXED)) > addr = round_hint_to_min(addr); > > /* Careful about overflows.. */ > len = PAGE_ALIGN(len); > if (!len) > return -ENOMEM; > > Not doing that might mean the hint address will end up being rounded for > MAP_FIXED_SAFE which would change the behavior from MAP_FIXED. Yes, I will move it. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
