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From: mingo@kernel.org (Ingo Molnar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: mm: insure topdown mmap chooses addresses above security minimum
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:44:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130925174436.GA14037@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130925171243.GA7428@tcpepper-desk.jf.intel.com>


* Timothy Pepper <timothy.c.pepper@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed 25 Sep at 09:30:49 +0200 mingo at kernel.org said:
> > >  	info.flags = VM_UNMAPPED_AREA_TOPDOWN;
> > >  	info.length = len;
> > > -	info.low_limit = PAGE_SIZE;
> > > +	info.low_limit = max(PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_ALIGN(mmap_min_addr));
> > >  	info.high_limit = mm->mmap_base;
> > >  	info.align_mask = filp ? get_align_mask() : 0;
> > >  	info.align_offset = pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
> > 
> > There appears to be a lot of repetition in these methods - instead of 
> > changing 6 places it would be more future-proof to first factor out the 
> > common bits and then to apply the fix to the shared implementation.
> 
> Besides that existing redundancy in the multiple somewhat similar
> arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown() functions, I was expecting people might
> question the added redundancy of the six instances of:
> 
> 	max(PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_ALIGN(mmap_min_addr));

That redundancy would be automatically addressed by my suggestion.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-25 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-24 21:23 mm: insure topdown mmap chooses addresses above security minimum Timothy Pepper
2013-09-24 21:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-09-25  7:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-25 17:12   ` Timothy Pepper
2013-09-25 17:44     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-09-27 15:39       ` Timothy Pepper

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