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Date:	Thu, 7 Apr 2011 07:17:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Robert Swiecki <robert@...ecki.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUG

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was about to send you my own UNTESTED patch: let me append it anyway,
> > I think it is more correct than yours (it's the offset of vm_end we need
> > to worry about, and there's the funny old_len,new_len stuff).
> 
> Umm. That's what my patch did too. The
> 
>    pgoff = (addr - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> 
> is the "offset of the pgoff" from the original mapping, then we do
> 
>    pgoff += vma->vm_pgoff;
> 
> to get the pgoff of the new mapping, and then we do
> 
>    if (pgoff + (new_len >> PAGE_SHIFT) < pgoff)
> 
> to check that the new mapping is ok.

Right, I was forgetting the semantics for mremap when
addr + old_len < vma->vm_end.  It has to move out the
old section and extend it elsewhere, it does not affect
the page just before vma->vm_end at all.  So mine was
indeed a more complicated way of doing yours.

> 
> I think yours is equivalent, just a different (and odd - that
> linear_page_index() thing will do lots of unnecessary shifts and
> hugepage crap) way of writing it.

I was trying to use the common function provided: but it's
actually wrong, that's a function for getting the value found
in page->index (in units of PAGE_CACHE_SIZE), whereas here we
want the value found in vm_pgoff (in units of PAGE_SIZE).

Of course PAGE_CACHE_SIZE has equalled PAGE_SIZE everywhere but in
some patches by Christoph Lameter a few years back, so there isn't
an effective difference; but I was wrong to use that function.

> 
> > See what you think - sorry, I'm going out now.
> 
> I think _yours_ is conceptually buggy, because I think that test for
> "vma->vm_file" is wrong.

Just being cautious: we cannot hit the BUG in prio_tree.c when we're
dealing with an anonymous mapping, and I didn't want to think about
anonymous at the time.

> 
> Yes, new anonymous mappings set vm_pgoff to the virtual address, but
> that's not true for mremap() moving them around, afaik.
> 
> Admittedly it's really hard to get to the overflow case, because the
> address is shifted down, so even if you start out with an anonymous
> mmap at a high address (to get a big vm_off), and then move it down
> and expand it (to get a big size), I doubt you can possibly overflow.
> But I still don't think that the test for vm_file is semantically
> sensible, even if it might not _matter_.

The strangest case is when a 64-bit kernel execs a 32-bit executable,
preparing the stack with a very high virtual address which goes into
vm_pgoff (shifted by PAGE_SHIFT), then moves that stack down into the
32-bit address space but leaving it with the original high vm_pgoff.

I think you are now excluding some wild anonymous cases which were
allowed before, and gave no trouble - vma_address() looks like a wrap
won't upset it.  But they're not cases which anyone is likely to do,
and safer to keep the anon rules in synch with the file rules.

> 
> But whatever. I suspect both our patches are practically doing the
> same thing, and it would be interesting to hear if it actually fixes
> the issue. Maybe there is some other way to mess up vm_pgoff that I
> can't think of right now.

Here's yours inline below:

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
---

 mm/mremap.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index 1de98d492ddc..a7c1f9f9b941 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -277,9 +277,16 @@ static struct vm_area_struct *vma_to_resize(unsigned long addr,
 	if (old_len > vma->vm_end - addr)
 		goto Efault;

-	if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_PFNMAP)) {
-		if (new_len > old_len)
+	/* Need to be careful about a growing mapping */
+	if (new_len > old_len) {
+		unsigned long pgoff;
+
+		if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_PFNMAP))
 			goto Efault;
+		pgoff = (addr - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+		pgoff += vma->vm_pgoff;
+		if (pgoff + (new_len >> PAGE_SHIFT) < pgoff)
+			goto Einval;
 	}

 	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) {