linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: introduce MAP_FIXED

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Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 04:50:53 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: introduce MAP_FIXED_SAFE

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:25:49AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -1342,6 +1342,10 @@ unsigned long do_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
>  		if (!(file && path_noexec(&file->f_path)))
>  			prot |= PROT_EXEC;
>  
> +	/* force arch specific MAP_FIXED handling in get_unmapped_area */
> +	if (flags & MAP_FIXED_SAFE)
> +		flags |= MAP_FIXED;
> +
>  	if (!(flags & MAP_FIXED))
>  		addr = round_hint_to_min(addr);
>  

We're up to 22 MAP_ flags now.  We'll run out soon.  Let's preserve half
of a flag by giving userspace the definition:

#define MAP_FIXED_SAFE	(MAP_FIXED | _MAP_NOT_HINT)

then in here:

	if ((flags & _MAP_NOT_HINT) && !(flags & MAP_FIXED))
		return -EINVAL;

Now we can use _MAP_NOT_HINT all by itself in the future to mean
something else.