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authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2014-11-14 07:18:31 -0800
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2014-11-18 00:58:54 +0100
commit1de4fa14ee25a8edf287855513b61c3945c8878a (patch)
treeb89755c77a75d95a234487d30661c03e01b2b538 /mm/mmap.c
parentfe3d197f84319d3bce379a9c0dc17b1f48ad358c (diff)
x86, mpx: Cleanup unused bound tables
The previous patch allocates bounds tables on-demand. As noted in an earlier description, these can add up to *HUGE* amounts of memory. This has caused OOMs in practice when running tests. This patch adds support for freeing bounds tables when they are no longer in use. There are two types of mappings in play when unmapping tables: 1. The mapping with the actual data, which userspace is munmap()ing or brk()ing away, etc... 2. The mapping for the bounds table *backing* the data (is tagged with VM_MPX, see the patch "add MPX specific mmap interface"). If userspace use the prctl() indroduced earlier in this patchset to enable the management of bounds tables in kernel, when it unmaps the first type of mapping with the actual data, the kernel needs to free the mapping for the bounds table backing the data. This patch hooks in at the very end of do_unmap() to do so. We look at the addresses being unmapped and find the bounds directory entries and tables which cover those addresses. If an entire table is unused, we clear associated directory entry and free the table. Once we unmap the bounds table, we would have a bounds directory entry pointing at empty address space. That address space might now be allocated for some other (random) use, and the MPX hardware might now try to walk it as if it were a bounds table. That would be bad. So any unmapping of an enture bounds table has to be accompanied by a corresponding write to the bounds directory entry to invalidate it. That write to the bounds directory can fault, which causes the following problem: Since we are doing the freeing from munmap() (and other paths like it), we hold mmap_sem for write. If we fault, the page fault handler will attempt to acquire mmap_sem for read and we will deadlock. To avoid the deadlock, we pagefault_disable() when touching the bounds directory entry and use a get_user_pages() to resolve the fault. The unmapping of bounds tables happends under vm_munmap(). We also (indirectly) call vm_munmap() to _do_ the unmapping of the bounds tables. We avoid unbounded recursion by disallowing freeing of bounds tables *for* bounds tables. This would not occur normally, so should not have any practical impact. Being strict about it here helps ensure that we do not have an exploitable stack overflow. Based-on-patch-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151831.E4531C4A@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mmap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mmap.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 87e82b38453c..814762c15631 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2597,6 +2597,8 @@ int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len)
detach_vmas_to_be_unmapped(mm, vma, prev, end);
unmap_region(mm, vma, prev, start, end);
+ arch_unmap(mm, vma, start, end);
+
/* Fix up all other VM information */
remove_vma_list(mm, vma);