linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: shift VM_GROWS* check from mmap_region() to do_mmap

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Date:	Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:23:07 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: shift VM_GROWS* check from mmap_region() to
	do_mmap_pgoff()

mmap() doesn't allow the non-anonymous mappings with VM_GROWS* bit set.
In particular this means that mmap_region()->vma_merge(file, vm_flags)
must always fail if "vm_flags & VM_GROWS" is set incorrectly.

So it does not make sense to check VM_GROWS* after we already allocated
the new vma, the only caller, do_mmap_pgoff(), which can pass this flag
can do the check itself.

And this looks a bit more correct, mmap_region() already unmapped the
old mapping at this stage. But if mmap() is going to fail, it should
avoid do_munmap() if possible.

Note: we check VM_GROWS at the end to ensure that do_mmap_pgoff() won't
return EINVAL in the case when it currently returns another error code.

Many thanks to Hugh who nacked the buggy v1.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 mm/mmap.c |   10 ++++------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index fbad7b0..92d9f54 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1302,6 +1302,8 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
 
 			if (!file->f_op || !file->f_op->mmap)
 				return -ENODEV;
+			if (vm_flags & (VM_GROWSDOWN|VM_GROWSUP))
+				return -EINVAL;
 			break;
 
 		default:
@@ -1310,6 +1312,8 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
 	} else {
 		switch (flags & MAP_TYPE) {
 		case MAP_SHARED:
+			if (vm_flags & (VM_GROWSDOWN|VM_GROWSUP))
+				return -EINVAL;
 			/*
 			 * Ignore pgoff.
 			 */
@@ -1544,11 +1548,7 @@ munmap_back:
 	vma->vm_pgoff = pgoff;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain);
 
-	error = -EINVAL;	/* when rejecting VM_GROWSDOWN|VM_GROWSUP */
-
 	if (file) {
-		if (vm_flags & (VM_GROWSDOWN|VM_GROWSUP))
-			goto free_vma;
 		if (vm_flags & VM_DENYWRITE) {
 			error = deny_write_access(file);
 			if (error)
@@ -1573,8 +1573,6 @@ munmap_back:
 		pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff;
 		vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
 	} else if (vm_flags & VM_SHARED) {
-		if (unlikely(vm_flags & (VM_GROWSDOWN|VM_GROWSUP)))
-			goto free_vma;
 		error = shmem_zero_setup(vma);
 		if (error)
 			goto free_vma;
-- 
1.5.5.1


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