Re: [PATCH RESEND v2] mm: Optional full ASLR for mmap() and mremap()

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 07:26:31PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 7:23 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 07:13:51PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> > > And for expanding stacks, it might be a good idea for other
> > > reasons as well (locking consistency) to refactor them such that the
> > > size in the VMA tree corresponds to the maximum expansion of the stack
> > > (and if an allocation is about to fail, shrink such stack mappings).
> >
> > We're doing that as part of the B-tree ;-)  Although not the shrink
> > stack mappings part ...
> 
> Wheee, thanks! Finally no more data races on ->vm_start?

Ah, maybe still that.  The B-tree records the start of the mapping in
the tree, but we still keep vma->vm_start as pointing to the current top
of the stack (it's still the top if it grows down ... right?)  The key is
that these numbers may now be different, so from the tree's point of view,
the vm addresses for 1MB below the stack appear to be occupied.  From the
VMA's point of view, the stack finishes where it was last accessed.

We also get rid of the insanity of "return the next VMA if there's no
VMA at this address" which most of the callers don't want and have to
check for.  Again, from the tree's point of view, there is a VMA at this
address, but from the VMA's point of view, it'll need to expand to reach
that address.

I don't think this piece is implemented yet, but it's definitely planned.