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[15/22] mm/hmm: Poison hmm_range during unregister

Message ID 20190701062020.19239-16-hch@lst.de (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [01/22] mm/hmm.c: suppress compilation warnings when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set | expand

Commit Message

Christoph Hellwig July 1, 2019, 6:20 a.m. UTC 
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@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@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Tested-by: Philip Yang <Philip.Yang@amd.com>
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 mm/hmm.c | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 2ef14b2b5505..c30aa9403dbe 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);