The patch titled nommu: fix MAP_PRIVATE mmap() of objects where the data can be mapped directly has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is nommu-fix-map_private-mmap-of-objects-where-the-data-can-be-mapped-directly.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: nommu: fix MAP_PRIVATE mmap() of objects where the data can be mapped directly From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Fix MAP_PRIVATE mmap() of files and devices where the data in the backing store might be mapped directly. Use the BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT capability flag to govern whether or not we should be trying to map a file directly. This can be used to determine whether or not a region has been filled in at the point where we call do_mmap_shared() or do_mmap_private(). The BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT capability flag is cleared by validate_mmap_request() if there's any reason we can't use it. It's also cleared in do_mmap_pgoff() if f_op->get_unmapped_area() fails. Without this fix, attempting to run a program from a RomFS image on a non-mappable MTD partition results in a BUG as the kernel attempts XIP, and this can be caught in gdb: Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0xc005dce8 in add_nommu_region (region=<value optimized out>) at mm/nommu.c:547 (gdb) bt #0 0xc005dce8 in add_nommu_region (region=<value optimized out>) at mm/nommu.c:547 #1 0xc005f168 in do_mmap_pgoff (file=0xc31a6620, addr=<value optimized out>, len=3808, prot=3, flags=6146, pgoff=0) at mm/nommu.c:1373 #2 0xc00a96b8 in elf_fdpic_map_file (params=0xc33fbbec, file=0xc31a6620, mm=0xc31bef60, what=0xc0213144 "executable") at mm.h:1145 #3 0xc00aa8b4 in load_elf_fdpic_binary (bprm=0xc316cb00, regs=<value optimized out>) at fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c:343 #4 0xc006b588 in search_binary_handler (bprm=0x6, regs=0xc33fbce0) at fs/exec.c:1234 #5 0xc006c648 in do_execve (filename=<value optimized out>, argv=0xc3ad14cc, envp=0xc3ad1460, regs=0xc33fbce0) at fs/exec.c:1356 #6 0xc0008cf0 in sys_execve (name=<value optimized out>, argv=0xc3ad14cc, envp=0xc3ad1460) at arch/frv/kernel/process.c:263 #7 0xc00075dc in __syscall_call () at arch/frv/kernel/entry.S:897 Note that this fix does the following commit differently: commit a190887b58c32d19c2eee007c5eb8faa970a69ba Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Sep 5 11:17:07 2009 -0700 nommu: fix error handling in do_mmap_pgoff() Reported-by: Graff Yang <graff.yang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/nommu.c | 34 ++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/nommu.c~nommu-fix-map_private-mmap-of-objects-where-the-data-can-be-mapped-directly mm/nommu.c --- a/mm/nommu.c~nommu-fix-map_private-mmap-of-objects-where-the-data-can-be-mapped-directly +++ a/mm/nommu.c @@ -1034,7 +1034,7 @@ static int do_mmap_shared_file(struct vm ret = vma->vm_file->f_op->mmap(vma->vm_file, vma); if (ret == 0) { vma->vm_region->vm_top = vma->vm_region->vm_end; - return ret; + return 0; } if (ret != -ENOSYS) return ret; @@ -1051,7 +1051,8 @@ static int do_mmap_shared_file(struct vm */ static int do_mmap_private(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_region *region, - unsigned long len) + unsigned long len, + unsigned long capabilities) { struct page *pages; unsigned long total, point, n, rlen; @@ -1062,13 +1063,13 @@ static int do_mmap_private(struct vm_are * shared mappings on devices or memory * - VM_MAYSHARE will be set if it may attempt to share */ - if (vma->vm_file) { + if (capabilities & BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT) { ret = vma->vm_file->f_op->mmap(vma->vm_file, vma); if (ret == 0) { /* shouldn't return success if we're not sharing */ BUG_ON(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE)); vma->vm_region->vm_top = vma->vm_region->vm_end; - return ret; + return 0; } if (ret != -ENOSYS) return ret; @@ -1306,7 +1307,7 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file * - this is the hook for quasi-memory character devices to * tell us the location of a shared mapping */ - if (file && file->f_op->get_unmapped_area) { + if (capabilities & BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT) { addr = file->f_op->get_unmapped_area(file, addr, len, pgoff, flags); if (IS_ERR((void *) addr)) { @@ -1330,15 +1331,17 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file } vma->vm_region = region; - add_nommu_region(region); - /* set up the mapping */ + /* set up the mapping + * - the region is filled in if BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT is still set + */ if (file && vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) ret = do_mmap_shared_file(vma); else - ret = do_mmap_private(vma, region, len); + ret = do_mmap_private(vma, region, len, capabilities); if (ret < 0) - goto error_put_region; + goto error_just_free; + add_nommu_region(region); /* okay... we have a mapping; now we have to register it */ result = vma->vm_start; @@ -1356,19 +1359,6 @@ share: kleave(" = %lx", result); return result; -error_put_region: - __put_nommu_region(region); - if (vma) { - if (vma->vm_file) { - fput(vma->vm_file); - if (vma->vm_flags & VM_EXECUTABLE) - removed_exe_file_vma(vma->vm_mm); - } - kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma); - } - kleave(" = %d [pr]", ret); - return ret; - error_just_free: up_write(&nommu_region_sem); error: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch procfs-disable-per-task-stack-usage-on-nommu.patch hugetlb_file_setup-use-c-not-cpp.patch nommu-fix-map_private-mmap-of-objects-where-the-data-can-be-mapped-directly.patch frv-duplicate-output_buffer-of-e03.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html