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Date:	Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:45:19 +0200
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@...omorphy.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, mm: get ASLR work for hugetlb mappings

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 04:52:20PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Matthew noticed that hugetlb doesn't participate in ASLR on x86-64.
> The reason is genereic hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() which is used on
> x86-64. It doesn't support randomization and use bottom-up unmapped area
> lookup, instead of usual top-down on x86-64.
> 
> x86 has arch-specific hugetlb_get_unmapped_area(), but it's used only on
> x86-32.
> 
> Let's use arch-specific hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() on x86-64 too.
> It fixes the issue and make hugetlb use top-down unmapped area lookup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>

Gentelmen,

Could you take a look on the patch, please?

It's currently in -mm to get it tested on -next, but it should go through
x86 tree, I believe.

> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/page.h    | 1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/page_32.h | 4 ----
>  arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c      | 9 +++------
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
> index c87892442e..775873d3be 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
> @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ extern bool __virt_addr_valid(unsigned long kaddr);
>  #include <asm-generic/getorder.h>
>  
>  #define __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA 1
> +#define HAVE_ARCH_HUGETLB_UNMAPPED_AREA
>  
>  #endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
>  #endif /* _ASM_X86_PAGE_H */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_32.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_32.h
> index 4d550d04b6..904f528cc8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_32.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_32.h
> @@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
>  
>  #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
> -#define HAVE_ARCH_HUGETLB_UNMAPPED_AREA
> -#endif
> -
>  #define __phys_addr_nodebug(x)	((x) - PAGE_OFFSET)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
>  extern unsigned long __phys_addr(unsigned long);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> index 9d980d88b7..8c9f647ff9 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> @@ -87,9 +87,7 @@ int pmd_huge_support(void)
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> -/* x86_64 also uses this file */
> -
> -#ifdef HAVE_ARCH_HUGETLB_UNMAPPED_AREA
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
>  static unsigned long hugetlb_get_unmapped_area_bottomup(struct file *file,
>  		unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
>  		unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags)
> @@ -99,7 +97,7 @@ static unsigned long hugetlb_get_unmapped_area_bottomup(struct file *file,
>  
>  	info.flags = 0;
>  	info.length = len;
> -	info.low_limit = TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE;
> +	info.low_limit = current->mm->mmap_legacy_base;
>  	info.high_limit = TASK_SIZE;
>  	info.align_mask = PAGE_MASK & ~huge_page_mask(h);
>  	info.align_offset = 0;
> @@ -172,8 +170,7 @@ hugetlb_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
>  		return hugetlb_get_unmapped_area_topdown(file, addr, len,
>  				pgoff, flags);
>  }
> -
> -#endif /*HAVE_ARCH_HUGETLB_UNMAPPED_AREA*/
> +#endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>  static __init int setup_hugepagesz(char *opt)
> -- 
> 1.8.4.rc3
> 
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