Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] mm: introduce vma->vm_flags modifier functions

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On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 08:49:50AM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 1:10 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > +     /*
> > > +      * Flags, see mm.h.
> > > +      * WARNING! Do not modify directly.
> > > +      * Use {init|reset|set|clear|mod}_vm_flags() functions instead.
> > > +      */
> > > +     unsigned long vm_flags;
> >
> > We have __private and ACCESS_PRIVATE() to help with enforcing this.
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out, Peter! I guess for that I'll need to
> convert all read accesses and provide get_vm_flags() too? That will
> cause some additional churt (a quick search shows 801 hits over 248
> files) but maybe it's worth it? I think Michal suggested that too in
> another patch. Should I do that while we are at it?

Here's a trick I saw somewhere in the VFS:

	union {
		const vm_flags_t vm_flags;
		vm_flags_t __private __vm_flags;
	};

Now it can be read by anybody but written only by those using
ACCESS_PRIVATE.



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