linux-kernel - [RFC v4 15/20] mm/spf: protect mremap() against speculative pf

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Message-Id: <1497018069-17790-16-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri,  9 Jun 2017 16:21:04 +0200
From:   Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kirill@...temov.name,
        ak@...ux.intel.com, mhocko@...nel.org, dave@...olabs.net,
        jack@...e.cz, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
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        haren@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        npiggin@...il.com, bsingharora@...il.com
Subject: [RFC v4 15/20] mm/spf: protect mremap() against speculative pf

mremap() is modifying the VMA layout and thus must be protected against
the speculative page fault handler.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 mm/mremap.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index cd8a1b199ef9..9c7f69c9e80f 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -300,6 +300,10 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (!new_vma)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	write_seqcount_begin(&vma->vm_sequence);
+	write_seqcount_begin_nested(&new_vma->vm_sequence,
+				    SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
+
 	moved_len = move_page_tables(vma, old_addr, new_vma, new_addr, old_len,
 				     need_rmap_locks);
 	if (moved_len < old_len) {
@@ -316,6 +320,7 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		 */
 		move_page_tables(new_vma, new_addr, vma, old_addr, moved_len,
 				 true);
+		write_seqcount_end(&vma->vm_sequence);
 		vma = new_vma;
 		old_len = new_len;
 		old_addr = new_addr;
@@ -324,7 +329,9 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		mremap_userfaultfd_prep(new_vma, uf);
 		arch_remap(mm, old_addr, old_addr + old_len,
 			   new_addr, new_addr + new_len);
+		write_seqcount_end(&vma->vm_sequence);
 	}
+	write_seqcount_end(&new_vma->vm_sequence);
 
 	/* Conceal VM_ACCOUNT so old reservation is not undone */
 	if (vm_flags & VM_ACCOUNT) {
-- 
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