[RFC PATCH 10/11] mm/hmm: Poison hmm_range during unregister

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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Trying to misuse a range outside its lifetime is a kernel bug. Use WARN_ON
and poison bytes to detect this condition.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/hmm.c | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 6c3b7398672c29..02752d3ef2ed92 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -936,8 +936,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hmm_range_register);
  */
 void hmm_range_unregister(struct hmm_range *range)
 {
-	/* Sanity check this really should not happen. */
-	if (range->hmm == NULL || range->end <= range->start)
+	if (WARN_ON(range->end <= range->start))
 		return;
 
 	mutex_lock(&range->hmm->lock);
@@ -945,9 +944,13 @@ void hmm_range_unregister(struct hmm_range *range)
 	mutex_unlock(&range->hmm->lock);
 
 	/* Drop reference taken by hmm_range_register() */
-	range->valid = false;
 	hmm_put(range->hmm);
-	range->hmm = NULL;
+
+	/* The range is now invalid, leave it poisoned. */
+	range->valid = false;
+	range->start = ULONG_MAX;
+	range->end = 0;
+	memset(&range->hmm, POISON_INUSE, sizeof(range->hmm));
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(hmm_range_unregister);
 
-- 
2.21.0




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