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[RFC v3 17/17] mm/spf: protect mremap() against speculative pf

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  [RFC v3 17/17] mm/spf: protect mremap() against speculative pf Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-27 18:00 +0200

#1632204 — [RFC v3 17/17] mm/spf: protect mremap() against speculative pf

mremap() is modifying the VMA layout and thus must be protected against
the speculative page fault handler.

XXX: Is the change to vma->vm_flags to set VM_ACCOUNT require the
protection ?

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 mm/mremap.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index 30d7d2482eea..40c3c869dffc 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -288,6 +288,10 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (!new_vma)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	write_seqcount_begin(&vma->vm_sequence);
+	write_seqcount_begin_nested(&new_vma->vm_sequence,
+				    SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
+
 	moved_len = move_page_tables(vma, old_addr, new_vma, new_addr, old_len,
 				     need_rmap_locks);
 	if (moved_len < old_len) {
@@ -304,6 +308,7 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		 */
 		move_page_tables(new_vma, new_addr, vma, old_addr, moved_len,
 				 true);
+		write_seqcount_end(&vma->vm_sequence);
 		vma = new_vma;
 		old_len = new_len;
 		old_addr = new_addr;
@@ -311,7 +316,9 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	} else {
 		arch_remap(mm, old_addr, old_addr + old_len,
 			   new_addr, new_addr + new_len);
+		write_seqcount_end(&vma->vm_sequence);
 	}
+	write_seqcount_end(&new_vma->vm_sequence);
 
 	/* Conceal VM_ACCOUNT so old reservation is not undone */
 	if (vm_flags & VM_ACCOUNT) {
-- 
2.7.4

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