[PATCH v4 hmm 10/12] mm/hmm: Poison hmm_range during unregister

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at ziepe.ca
Mon Jun 24 21:01:08 UTC 2019


From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at mellanox.com>

Trying to misuse a range outside its lifetime is a kernel bug. Use poison
bytes to help detect this condition. Double unregister will reliably crash.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny at intel.com>
Tested-by: Philip Yang <Philip.Yang at amd.com>
---
v2
- Keep range start/end valid after unregistration (Jerome)
v3
- Revise some comments (John)
- Remove start/end WARN_ON (Souptick)
v4
- Fix tabs vs spaces in comment (Christoph)
---
 mm/hmm.c | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 2ef14b2b5505f6..c30aa9403dbe4d 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -925,19 +925,21 @@ void hmm_range_unregister(struct hmm_range *range)
 {
 	struct hmm *hmm = range->hmm;
 
-	/* Sanity check this really should not happen. */
-	if (hmm == NULL || range->end <= range->start)
-		return;
-
 	mutex_lock(&hmm->lock);
 	list_del_init(&range->list);
 	mutex_unlock(&hmm->lock);
 
 	/* Drop reference taken by hmm_range_register() */
-	range->valid = false;
 	mmput(hmm->mm);
 	hmm_put(hmm);
-	range->hmm = NULL;
+
+	/*
+	 * The range is now invalid and the ref on the hmm is dropped, so
+	 * poison the pointer.  Leave other fields in place, for the caller's
+	 * use.
+	 */
+	range->valid = false;
+	memset(&range->hmm, POISON_INUSE, sizeof(range->hmm));
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(hmm_range_unregister);
 
-- 
2.22.0



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