linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 4/5] mm/mseal: simplify and rename VMA gap check

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Message-ID: <dd50984eff1e242b5f7f0f070a3360ef760e06b8.1753431105.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:29:44 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@...e.de>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jeff Xu <jeffxu@...omium.org>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 4/5] mm/mseal: simplify and rename VMA gap check

The check_mm_seal() function is doing something general - checking whether
a range contains only VMAs (or rather that it does NOT contain any
unmapped regions).

So rename this function to range_contains_unmapped().

Additionally simplify the logic, we are simply checking whether the last
vma->vm_end has either a VMA starting after it or ends before the end
parameter.

This check is rather dubious, so it is sensible to keep it local to
mm/mseal.c as at a later stage it may be removed, and we don't want any
other mm code to perform such a check.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
---
 mm/mseal.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mseal.c b/mm/mseal.c
index adbcc65e9660..1059322add34 100644
--- a/mm/mseal.c
+++ b/mm/mseal.c
@@ -38,31 +38,28 @@ static int mseal_fixup(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 }
 
 /*
- * Check for do_mseal:
- * 1> start is part of a valid vma.
- * 2> end is part of a valid vma.
- * 3> No gap (unallocated address) between start and end.
- * 4> map is sealable.
+ * Does the [start, end) range contain any unmapped memory?
+ *
+ * We ensure that:
+ * - start is part of a valid VMA.
+ * - end is part of a valid VMA.
+ * - no gap (unallocated memory) exists between start and end.
  */
-static int check_mm_seal(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+static bool range_contains_unmapped(struct mm_struct *mm,
+		unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
-	unsigned long nstart = start;
+	unsigned long prev_end = start;
 	VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, current->mm, start);
 
-	/* going through each vma to check. */
 	for_each_vma_range(vmi, vma, end) {
-		if (vma->vm_start > nstart)
-			/* unallocated memory found. */
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		if (vma->vm_end >= end)
-			return 0;
+		if (vma->vm_start > prev_end)
+			return true;
 
-		nstart = vma->vm_end;
+		prev_end = vma->vm_end;
 	}
 
-	return -ENOMEM;
+	return prev_end < end;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -184,14 +181,10 @@ int do_mseal(unsigned long start, size_t len_in, unsigned long flags)
 	if (mmap_write_lock_killable(mm))
 		return -EINTR;
 
-	/*
-	 * First pass, this helps to avoid
-	 * partial sealing in case of error in input address range,
-	 * e.g. ENOMEM error.
-	 */
-	ret = check_mm_seal(start, end);
-	if (ret)
+	if (range_contains_unmapped(mm, start, end)) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Second pass, this should success, unless there are errors
-- 
2.50.1