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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-20 16:39:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-21 08:49:50 -0700
commit7798330ac8114c731cfab83e634c6ecedaa233d7 (patch)
tree76c15db91609ad3355add2a6f23823ea27cf920d /mm
parent297c5eee372478fc32fec5fe8eed711eedb13f3d (diff)
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mm: make the mlock() stack guard page checks stricter
If we've split the stack vma, only the lowest one has the guard page. Now that we have a doubly linked list of vma's, checking this is trivial. Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/mlock.c21
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index 49e5e4c..cbae7c5 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -135,6 +135,19 @@ void munlock_vma_page(struct page *page)
}
}
+/* Is the vma a continuation of the stack vma above it? */
+static inline int vma_stack_continue(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
+{
+ return vma && (vma->vm_end == addr) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN);
+}
+
+static inline int stack_guard_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
+{
+ return (vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN) &&
+ (vma->vm_start == addr) &&
+ !vma_stack_continue(vma->vm_prev, addr);
+}
+
/**
* __mlock_vma_pages_range() - mlock a range of pages in the vma.
* @vma: target vma
@@ -168,11 +181,9 @@ static long __mlock_vma_pages_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
/* We don't try to access the guard page of a stack vma */
- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN) {
- if (start == vma->vm_start) {
- start += PAGE_SIZE;
- nr_pages--;
- }
+ if (stack_guard_page(vma, start)) {
+ addr += PAGE_SIZE;
+ nr_pages--;
}
while (nr_pages > 0) {