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Date:   Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:33:13 +0000
From:   Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
To:     Brian Geffon <bgeffon@...gle.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] mremap: Don't allow MREMAP_DONTUNMAP on
 special_mappings and aio

[I moved your reply to avoid top-posting]

On 12/28/20 6:03 PM, Brian Geffon wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 6:34 PM Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com> wrote:
>>
>> As kernel expect to see only one of such mappings, any further
>> operations on the VMA-copy may be unexpected by the kernel.
>> Maybe it's being on the safe side, but there doesn't seem to be any
>> expected use-case for this, so restrict it now.
>>
>> Fixes: commit e346b3813067 ("mm/mremap: add MREMAP_DONTUNMAP to mremap()")
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
>
> I don't think this situation can ever happen MREMAP_DONTUNMAP is
> already restricted to anonymous mappings (defined as not having
> vm_ops) and vma_to_resize checks that the mapping is anonymous before
> move_vma is called.

I've looked again now, I think it is possible. One can call
MREMAP_DONTUNMAP without MREMAP_FIXED and without resizing. So that the
old VMA is copied at some free address.

The calltrace would be: mremap()=>move_vma()
[under if (flags & MREMAP_MAYMOVE)].

On the other side I agree with you that the fix could have been better
if I realized the semantics that MREMAP_DONTUNMAP should only work with
anonymous mappings.

Probably, a better fix would be to move
:       if (flags & MREMAP_DONTUNMAP && (!vma_is_anonymous(vma) ||
:                       vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
:               return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

from vma_to_resize() into the mremap() syscall directly.
What do you think?

-- 
          Dima