From 1869305009857cdeaabe6283bcdc2359c5784543 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michel Lespinasse Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:32:46 -0800 Subject: mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to better deal with racy userspace programs The vm_populate() code populates user mappings without constantly holding the mmap_sem. This makes it susceptible to racy userspace programs: the user mappings may change while vm_populate() is running, and in this case vm_populate() may end up populating the new mapping instead of the old one. In order to reduce the possibility of userspace getting surprised by this behavior, this change introduces the VM_POPULATE vma flag which gets set on vmas we want vm_populate() to work on. This way vm_populate() may still end up populating the new mapping after such a race, but only if the new mapping is also one that the user has requested (using MAP_SHARED, MAP_LOCKED or mlock) to be populated. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Acked-by: Rik van Riel Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mman.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/mman.h') diff --git a/include/linux/mman.h b/include/linux/mman.h index 9aa863da287f..61c7a87e5d2b 100644 --- a/include/linux/mman.h +++ b/include/linux/mman.h @@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ calc_vm_flag_bits(unsigned long flags) { return _calc_vm_trans(flags, MAP_GROWSDOWN, VM_GROWSDOWN ) | _calc_vm_trans(flags, MAP_DENYWRITE, VM_DENYWRITE ) | - _calc_vm_trans(flags, MAP_LOCKED, VM_LOCKED ); + ((flags & MAP_LOCKED) ? (VM_LOCKED | VM_POPULATE) : 0) | + (((flags & (MAP_POPULATE | MAP_NONBLOCK)) == MAP_POPULATE) ? + VM_POPULATE : 0); } #endif /* _LINUX_MMAN_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3