[PATCH 4.17 298/324] mm: use helper functions for allocating and freeing vm_area structs

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Aug 23 2018 - 05:08:47 EST


4.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 3928d4f5ee37cdc523894f6e549e6aae521d8980 ]

The vm_area_struct is one of the most fundamental memory management
objects, but the management of it is entirely open-coded evertwhere,
ranging from allocation and freeing (using kmem_cache_[z]alloc and
kmem_cache_free) to initializing all the fields.

We want to unify this in order to end up having some unified
initialization of the vmas, and the first step to this is to at least
have basic allocation functions.

Right now those functions are literally just wrappers around the
kmem_cache_*() calls. This is a purely mechanical conversion:

# new vma:
kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL) -> vm_area_alloc()

# copy old vma
kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL) -> vm_area_dup(old)

# free vma
kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma) -> vm_area_free(vma)

to the point where the old vma passed in to the vm_area_dup() function
isn't even used yet (because I've left all the old manual initialization
alone).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c | 4 ++--
arch/ia64/mm/init.c | 8 ++++----
fs/exec.c | 4 ++--
include/linux/mm.h | 4 +++-
kernel/fork.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
mm/mmap.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
mm/nommu.c | 8 ++++----
7 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
@@ -2278,7 +2278,7 @@ pfm_smpl_buffer_alloc(struct task_struct
DPRINT(("smpl_buf @%p\n", smpl_buf));

/* allocate vma */
- vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ vma = vm_area_alloc();
if (!vma) {
DPRINT(("Cannot allocate vma\n"));
goto error_kmem;
@@ -2346,7 +2346,7 @@ pfm_smpl_buffer_alloc(struct task_struct
return 0;

error:
- kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+ vm_area_free(vma);
error_kmem:
pfm_rvfree(smpl_buf, size);

--- a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ ia64_init_addr_space (void)
* the problem. When the process attempts to write to the register backing store
* for the first time, it will get a SEGFAULT in this case.
*/
- vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ vma = vm_area_alloc();
if (vma) {
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain);
vma->vm_mm = current->mm;
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ ia64_init_addr_space (void)
down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
if (insert_vm_struct(current->mm, vma)) {
up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
- kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+ vm_area_free(vma);
return;
}
up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ ia64_init_addr_space (void)

/* map NaT-page at address zero to speed up speculative dereferencing of NULL: */
if (!(current->personality & MMAP_PAGE_ZERO)) {
- vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ vma = vm_area_alloc();
if (vma) {
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain);
vma->vm_mm = current->mm;
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ ia64_init_addr_space (void)
down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
if (insert_vm_struct(current->mm, vma)) {
up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
- kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+ vm_area_free(vma);
return;
}
up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ static int __bprm_mm_init(struct linux_b
struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL;
struct mm_struct *mm = bprm->mm;

- bprm->vma = vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ bprm->vma = vma = vm_area_alloc();
if (!vma)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ err:
up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
err_free:
bprm->vma = NULL;
- kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+ vm_area_free(vma);
return err;
}

--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -154,7 +154,9 @@ extern int overcommit_kbytes_handler(str
* mmap() functions).
*/

-extern struct kmem_cache *vm_area_cachep;
+struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_alloc(void);
+struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struct vm_area_struct *);
+void vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *);

#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
extern struct rb_root nommu_region_tree;
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -303,11 +303,26 @@ struct kmem_cache *files_cachep;
struct kmem_cache *fs_cachep;

/* SLAB cache for vm_area_struct structures */
-struct kmem_cache *vm_area_cachep;
+static struct kmem_cache *vm_area_cachep;

/* SLAB cache for mm_struct structures (tsk->mm) */
static struct kmem_cache *mm_cachep;

+struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_alloc(void)
+{
+ return kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+}
+
+struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struct vm_area_struct *orig)
+{
+ return kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+}
+
+void vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+}
+
static void account_kernel_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, int account)
{
void *stack = task_stack_page(tsk);
@@ -455,7 +470,7 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(str
goto fail_nomem;
charge = len;
}
- tmp = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ tmp = vm_area_dup(mpnt);
if (!tmp)
goto fail_nomem;
*tmp = *mpnt;
@@ -539,7 +554,7 @@ fail_uprobe_end:
fail_nomem_anon_vma_fork:
mpol_put(vma_policy(tmp));
fail_nomem_policy:
- kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, tmp);
+ vm_area_free(tmp);
fail_nomem:
retval = -ENOMEM;
vm_unacct_memory(charge);
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ static struct vm_area_struct *remove_vma
if (vma->vm_file)
fput(vma->vm_file);
mpol_put(vma_policy(vma));
- kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+ vm_area_free(vma);
return next;
}

@@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ again:
anon_vma_merge(vma, next);
mm->map_count--;
mpol_put(vma_policy(next));
- kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, next);
+ vm_area_free(next);
/*
* In mprotect's case 6 (see comments on vma_merge),
* we must remove another next too. It would clutter
@@ -1729,7 +1729,7 @@ unsigned long mmap_region(struct file *f
* specific mapper. the address has already been validated, but
* not unmapped, but the maps are removed from the list.
*/
- vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ vma = vm_area_alloc();
if (!vma) {
error = -ENOMEM;
goto unacct_error;
@@ -1832,7 +1832,7 @@ allow_write_and_free_vma:
if (vm_flags & VM_DENYWRITE)
allow_write_access(file);
free_vma:
- kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+ vm_area_free(vma);
unacct_error:
if (charged)
vm_unacct_memory(charged);
@@ -2620,7 +2620,7 @@ int __split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, st
return err;
}

- new = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ new = vm_area_dup(vma);
if (!new)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -2669,7 +2669,7 @@ int __split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, st
out_free_mpol:
mpol_put(vma_policy(new));
out_free_vma:
- kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, new);
+ vm_area_free(new);
return err;
}

@@ -2984,7 +2984,7 @@ static int do_brk_flags(unsigned long ad
/*
* create a vma struct for an anonymous mapping
*/
- vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ vma = vm_area_alloc();
if (!vma) {
vm_unacct_memory(len >> PAGE_SHIFT);
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -3202,7 +3202,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct v
}
*need_rmap_locks = (new_vma->vm_pgoff <= vma->vm_pgoff);
} else {
- new_vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ new_vma = vm_area_dup(vma);
if (!new_vma)
goto out;
*new_vma = *vma;
@@ -3226,7 +3226,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct v
out_free_mempol:
mpol_put(vma_policy(new_vma));
out_free_vma:
- kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, new_vma);
+ vm_area_free(new_vma);
out:
return NULL;
}
@@ -3350,7 +3350,7 @@ static struct vm_area_struct *__install_
int ret;
struct vm_area_struct *vma;

- vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ vma = vm_area_alloc();
if (unlikely(vma == NULL))
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

@@ -3376,7 +3376,7 @@ static struct vm_area_struct *__install_
return vma;

out:
- kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+ vm_area_free(vma);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}

--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ static void delete_vma(struct mm_struct
if (vma->vm_file)
fput(vma->vm_file);
put_nommu_region(vma->vm_region);
- kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+ vm_area_free(vma);
}

/*
@@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ unsigned long do_mmap(struct file *file,
if (!region)
goto error_getting_region;

- vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ vma = vm_area_alloc();
if (!vma)
goto error_getting_vma;

@@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ error:
kmem_cache_free(vm_region_jar, region);
if (vma->vm_file)
fput(vma->vm_file);
- kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+ vm_area_free(vma);
return ret;

sharing_violation:
@@ -1469,7 +1469,7 @@ int split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, stru
if (!region)
return -ENOMEM;

- new = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ new = vm_area_dup(vma);
if (!new) {
kmem_cache_free(vm_region_jar, region);
return -ENOMEM;