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Message-ID: <20180712150759.acjj4jdw4ykwvzwg@kshutemo-mobl1>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:08:00 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] Fix crash due to vma_is_anonymous() false-positives

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 05:56:24PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 
> Fix crash found by syzkaller.
> 
> The fix allows to remove ->vm_ops checks.
> 
> v2:
>  - Catch few more cases where we need to initialize ->vm_ops:
>    + nommu;
>    + ia64;
>  - Make sure that we initialize ->vm_ops even if ->mmap failed.
>    We need ->vm_ops in error path too.

Just to be clear: it *should* help found issues, but I don't have setup to
test nommu changes.

And ion-related bug was actually caused by fault injection that failed
page allocation and ->mmap not setting ->vm_ops. It should be fine now.
But again I wasn't able to trigger the exact situation.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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