Future changes will need to add a new member to struct vm_unmapped_area_info. This would cause trouble for any call site that doesn't initialize the struct. Currently every caller sets each field manually, so if new fields are added they will be unitialized and the core code parsing the struct will see garbage in the new field. It could be possible to initialize the new field manually to 0 at each call site. This and a couple other options were discussed, and the consensus (see links) was that in general the best way to accomplish this would be via static initialization with designated field initiators. Having some struct vm_unmapped_area_info instances not zero initialized will put those sites at risk of feeding garbage into vm_unmapped_area() if the convention is to zero initialize the struct and any new field addition misses a call site that initializes each field manually. It could be possible to leave the code mostly untouched, and just change the line: struct vm_unmapped_area_info info to: struct vm_unmapped_area_info info = {}; However, that would leave cleanup for the fields that are manually set to zero, as it would no longer be required. So to be reduce the chance of bugs via uninitialized fields, instead simply continue the process to initialize the struct this way tree wide. This will zero any unspecified members. Move the field initializers to the struct declaration when they are known at that time. Leave the fields out that were manually initialized to zero, as this would be redundant for designated initializers. Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202402280912.33AEE7A9CF@keescook/#t Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/j7bfvig3gew3qruouxrh7z7ehjjafrgkbcmg6tcghhfh3rhmzi@wzlcoecgy5rs/ --- Hi, This patch was split and refactored out of a tree-wide change [0] to just zero-init each struct vm_unmapped_area_info. The overall goal of the series is to help shadow stack guard gaps. Currently, there is only one arch with shadow stacks, but two more are in progress. It is 0day tested only. Thanks, Rick [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240226190951.3240433-6-rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx/ --- arch/s390/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 27 +++++++++++++-------------- arch/s390/mm/mmap.c | 25 +++++++++++++------------ 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/s390/mm/hugetlbpage.c index c2d2850ec8d5..dd7245b276e6 100644 --- a/arch/s390/mm/hugetlbpage.c +++ b/arch/s390/mm/hugetlbpage.c @@ -258,14 +258,13 @@ static unsigned long hugetlb_get_unmapped_area_bottomup(struct file *file, unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags) { struct hstate *h = hstate_file(file); - struct vm_unmapped_area_info info; + struct vm_unmapped_area_info info = { + .length = len, + .low_limit = current->mm->mmap_base, + .high_limit = TASK_SIZE, + .align_mask = PAGE_MASK & ~huge_page_mask(h) + }; - info.flags = 0; - info.length = len; - info.low_limit = current->mm->mmap_base; - info.high_limit = TASK_SIZE; - info.align_mask = PAGE_MASK & ~huge_page_mask(h); - info.align_offset = 0; return vm_unmapped_area(&info); } @@ -274,15 +273,15 @@ static unsigned long hugetlb_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *file, unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags) { struct hstate *h = hstate_file(file); - struct vm_unmapped_area_info info; + struct vm_unmapped_area_info info = { + .flags = VM_UNMAPPED_AREA_TOPDOWN, + .length = len, + .low_limit = PAGE_SIZE, + .high_limit = current->mm->mmap_base, + .align_mask = PAGE_MASK & ~huge_page_mask(h) + }; unsigned long addr; - info.flags = VM_UNMAPPED_AREA_TOPDOWN; - info.length = len; - info.low_limit = PAGE_SIZE; - info.high_limit = current->mm->mmap_base; - info.align_mask = PAGE_MASK & ~huge_page_mask(h); - info.align_offset = 0; addr = vm_unmapped_area(&info); /* diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/mmap.c b/arch/s390/mm/mmap.c index cd52d72b59cf..203eb653b92f 100644 --- a/arch/s390/mm/mmap.c +++ b/arch/s390/mm/mmap.c @@ -77,7 +77,12 @@ unsigned long arch_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, unsigned long addr, { struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; struct vm_area_struct *vma; - struct vm_unmapped_area_info info; + struct vm_unmapped_area_info info = { + .length = len, + .low_limit = mm->mmap_base, + .high_limit = TASK_SIZE, + .align_offset = pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT + }; if (len > TASK_SIZE - mmap_min_addr) return -ENOMEM; @@ -93,15 +98,10 @@ unsigned long arch_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, unsigned long addr, goto check_asce_limit; } - info.flags = 0; - info.length = len; - info.low_limit = mm->mmap_base; - info.high_limit = TASK_SIZE; if (filp || (flags & MAP_SHARED)) info.align_mask = MMAP_ALIGN_MASK << PAGE_SHIFT; else info.align_mask = 0; - info.align_offset = pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT; addr = vm_unmapped_area(&info); if (offset_in_page(addr)) return addr; @@ -116,7 +116,13 @@ unsigned long arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, unsigned long ad { struct vm_area_struct *vma; struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; - struct vm_unmapped_area_info info; + struct vm_unmapped_area_info info = { + .flags = VM_UNMAPPED_AREA_TOPDOWN, + .length = len, + .low_limit = PAGE_SIZE, + .high_limit = mm->mmap_base, + .align_offset = pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT + }; /* requested length too big for entire address space */ if (len > TASK_SIZE - mmap_min_addr) @@ -134,15 +140,10 @@ unsigned long arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, unsigned long ad goto check_asce_limit; } - info.flags = VM_UNMAPPED_AREA_TOPDOWN; - info.length = len; - info.low_limit = PAGE_SIZE; - info.high_limit = mm->mmap_base; if (filp || (flags & MAP_SHARED)) info.align_mask = MMAP_ALIGN_MASK << PAGE_SHIFT; else info.align_mask = 0; - info.align_offset = pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT; addr = vm_unmapped_area(&info); /* -- 2.34.1