linux-kernel - [PATCHv2 03/14] mm/shmem: Zero out unused vma fields in shmem_pseudo_vma

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Date:   Wed, 28 Mar 2018 19:55:29 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Kai Huang <kai.huang@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCHv2 03/14] mm/shmem: Zero out unused vma fields in shmem_pseudo_vma_init()

shmem/tmpfs uses pseudo vma to allocate page with correct NUMA policy.

The pseudo vma doesn't have vm_page_prot set. We are going to encode
encryption KeyID in vm_page_prot. Having garbage there causes problems.

Zero out all unused fields in the pseudo vma.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
---
 mm/shmem.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index b85919243399..387b89d9e17a 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1404,10 +1404,9 @@ static void shmem_pseudo_vma_init(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		struct shmem_inode_info *info, pgoff_t index)
 {
 	/* Create a pseudo vma that just contains the policy */
-	vma->vm_start = 0;
+	memset(vma, 0, sizeof(*vma));
 	/* Bias interleave by inode number to distribute better across nodes */
 	vma->vm_pgoff = index + info->vfs_inode.i_ino;
-	vma->vm_ops = NULL;
 	vma->vm_policy = mpol_shared_policy_lookup(&info->policy, index);
 }
 
-- 
2.16.2