linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 10/16] mm/vmalloc: Warn on improper use of vunmap

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Message-ID: <20250205151003.88959-11-ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Date: Wed,  5 Feb 2025 15:09:50 +0000
From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
	Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
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	Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@....com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
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Subject: [PATCH v1 10/16] mm/vmalloc: Warn on improper use of vunmap_range()

A call to vmalloc_huge() may cause memory blocks to be mapped at pmd or
pud level. But it is possible to subsquently call vunmap_range() on a
sub-range of the mapped memory, which partially overlaps a pmd or pud.
In this case, vmalloc unmaps the entire pmd or pud so that the
no-overlapping portion is also unmapped. Clearly that would have a bad
outcome, but it's not something that any callers do today as far as I
can tell. So I guess it's jsut expected that callers will not do this.

However, it would be useful to know if this happened in future; let's
add a warning to cover the eventuality.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index a6e7acebe9ad..fcdf67d5177a 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -374,8 +374,10 @@ static void vunmap_pmd_range(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		if (cleared || pmd_bad(*pmd))
 			*mask |= PGTBL_PMD_MODIFIED;
 
-		if (cleared)
+		if (cleared) {
+			WARN_ON(next - addr < PMD_SIZE);
 			continue;
+		}
 		if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
 			continue;
 		vunmap_pte_range(pmd, addr, next, mask);
@@ -399,8 +401,10 @@ static void vunmap_pud_range(p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		if (cleared || pud_bad(*pud))
 			*mask |= PGTBL_PUD_MODIFIED;
 
-		if (cleared)
+		if (cleared) {
+			WARN_ON(next - addr < PUD_SIZE);
 			continue;
+		}
 		if (pud_none_or_clear_bad(pud))
 			continue;
 		vunmap_pmd_range(pud, addr, next, mask);
-- 
2.43.0