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Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: mlock: avoid increase mm->locked_vm on mlock() when already mlock2(,MLOCK_ONFAULT)

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On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 06:59:39PM +0800, wei.guo.simon@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>
> 
> When one vma was with flag VM_LOCKED|VM_LOCKONFAULT (by invoking
> mlock2(,MLOCK_ONFAULT)), it can again be populated with mlock() with
> VM_LOCKED flag only.
> 
> There is a hole in mlock_fixup() which increase mm->locked_vm twice even
> the two operations are on the same vma and both with VM_LOCKED flags.
> 
> The issue can be reproduced by following code:
> mlock2(p, 1024 * 64, MLOCK_ONFAULT); //VM_LOCKED|VM_LOCKONFAULT
> mlock(p, 1024 * 64);  //VM_LOCKED
> Then check the increase VmLck field in /proc/pid/status(to 128k).
> 
> When vma is set with different vm_flags, and the new vm_flags is with
> VM_LOCKED, it is not necessarily be a "new locked" vma.  This patch
> corrects this bug by prevent mm->locked_vm from increment when old
> vm_flags is already VM_LOCKED.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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[PATCH 0/4] mm: mlock: fix some locked_vm counting issues wei.guo.simon@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 1/4] mm: mlock: check against vma for actual mlock() size wei.guo.simon@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 13:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: mlock: check against vma for actual mlock() size "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-08-30 13:40 +0200
  [PATCH 3/4] selftest: split mlock2_ funcs into separate mlock2.h wei.guo.simon@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 2/4] mm: mlock: avoid increase mm->locked_vm on mlock() when already mlock2(,MLOCK_ONFAULT) wei.guo.simon@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 13:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: mlock: avoid increase mm->locked_vm on mlock()  when already mlock2(,MLOCK_ONFAULT) "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-08-30 13:40 +0200
  [PATCH 4/4] selftests/vm: add test for mlock() when areas are intersected. wei.guo.simon@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 13:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 4/4] selftests/vm: add test for mlock() when areas are  intersected. David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2016-09-01 01:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 4/4] selftests/vm: add test for mlock() when areas are  intersected. Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-01 09:20 +0200

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