[PATCH 2/6] mm: introduce vma_set_file function v3

[Christian König]

Am 09.10.20 um 17:14 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 05:03:38PM +0200, Christian König wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * Change backing file, only valid to use during initial VMA setup.
>> + */
>> +void vma_set_file(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct file *file)
>> +{
>> +	if (file)
>> +	        get_file(file);
>> +
>> +	swap(vma->vm_file, file);
>> +
>> +	if (file)
>> +		fput(file);
>> +}
> fput crashes when file is NULL so the error handling after
> unmap_and_free_vma: can't handle this case, similarly vm_file can't be
> NULL either.
>
> So just simply:
>
>   swap(vma->vm_file, file);
>   get_file(vma->vm_file);
>   fput(file);
>   
> Will do?

I was considering this as well, yes.

> Just let it crash if any of them are wrongly NULL.

Mhm, changing from anonymous to file backed or reverse is probably not 
such a good idea.

So yes catching those problems early is probably the best approach we 
could do.

Going to do this in v4 if nobody objects.

Regards,
Christian.

>
> Jason