[PATCH 3/3] mm: check for VMA being detached before destroying it

From: Suren Baghdasaryan
Date: Tue Jun 20 2023 - 20:06:09 EST


By the time VMA is freed it has to be detached with the exception of
exit_mmap which is destroying the whole VMA tree. Enforce this
requirement before freeing the VMA. exit_mmap in the only user calling
__vm_area_free directly, therefore it won't trigger the new check.
Change VMA initialization to mark new VMAs as detached and change that
flag once the VMA is added into a tree.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++--
kernel/fork.c | 2 ++
mm/internal.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 74e3033c9fc2..9a10fcdb134e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ void setup_initial_init_mm(void *start_code, void *end_code,
struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_alloc(struct mm_struct *);
struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struct vm_area_struct *);
void vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *);
-/* Use only if VMA has no other users */
+/* Use only if VMA has no other users and might still be attached to a tree */
void __vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma);

#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ static inline void vma_init(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mm_struct *mm)
vma->vm_mm = mm;
vma->vm_ops = &dummy_vm_ops;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain);
- vma_mark_detached(vma, false);
+ vma->detached = true;
vma_numab_state_init(vma);
}

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 41c964104b58..000fc429345c 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -540,6 +540,7 @@ static void vm_area_free_rcu_cb(struct rcu_head *head)

/* The vma should not be locked while being destroyed. */
VM_BUG_ON_VMA(rwsem_is_locked(&vma->vm_lock->lock), vma);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!vma->detached);
__vm_area_free(vma);
}
#endif
@@ -549,6 +550,7 @@ void vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
call_rcu(&vma->vm_rcu, vm_area_free_rcu_cb);
#else
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!vma->detached);
__vm_area_free(vma);
#endif
}
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 68410c6d97ac..728189e6c703 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -1068,6 +1068,7 @@ static inline void vma_iter_store(struct vma_iterator *vmi,
vmi->mas.index = vma->vm_start;
vmi->mas.last = vma->vm_end - 1;
mas_store_prealloc(&vmi->mas, vma);
+ vma_mark_detached(vma, false);
}

static inline int vma_iter_store_gfp(struct vma_iterator *vmi,
--
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