From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jeff Xu <jeffxu@chromium.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/5] mm/mseal: Simplify and rename VMA gap check
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:37:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8efef79c46553a9b8924878c1f4363998c1f49ed.1752586090.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1752586090.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
The check_mm_seal() function is doing something general - checking whether
a range contains only VMAs (or rather that it does NOT contain any unmapped
regions).
So rename this function to range_contains_unmapped().
Additionally simplify the logic, we are simply checking whether the last
vma->vm_end has either a VMA starting after it or ends before the end
parameter.
This check is rather dubious, so it is sensible to keep it local to
mm/mseal.c as at a later stage it may be removed, and we don't want any
other mm code to perform such a check.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
mm/mseal.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/mseal.c b/mm/mseal.c
index adbcc65e9660..794d1043a706 100644
--- a/mm/mseal.c
+++ b/mm/mseal.c
@@ -37,34 +37,6 @@ static int mseal_fixup(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return ret;
}
-/*
- * Check for do_mseal:
- * 1> start is part of a valid vma.
- * 2> end is part of a valid vma.
- * 3> No gap (unallocated address) between start and end.
- * 4> map is sealable.
- */
-static int check_mm_seal(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
-{
- struct vm_area_struct *vma;
- unsigned long nstart = start;
- VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, current->mm, start);
-
- /* going through each vma to check. */
- for_each_vma_range(vmi, vma, end) {
- if (vma->vm_start > nstart)
- /* unallocated memory found. */
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- if (vma->vm_end >= end)
- return 0;
-
- nstart = vma->vm_end;
- }
-
- return -ENOMEM;
-}
-
/*
* Apply sealing.
*/
@@ -102,6 +74,24 @@ static int apply_mm_seal(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
return 0;
}
+/* Does the [start, end) range contain any unmapped memory? */
+static bool range_contains_unmapped(struct mm_struct *mm,
+ unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+ unsigned long prev_end = start;
+ VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, current->mm, start);
+
+ for_each_vma_range(vmi, vma, end) {
+ if (vma->vm_start > prev_end)
+ return true;
+
+ prev_end = vma->vm_end;
+ }
+
+ return prev_end < end;
+}
+
/*
* mseal(2) seals the VM's meta data from
* selected syscalls.
@@ -184,14 +174,10 @@ int do_mseal(unsigned long start, size_t len_in, unsigned long flags)
if (mmap_write_lock_killable(mm))
return -EINTR;
- /*
- * First pass, this helps to avoid
- * partial sealing in case of error in input address range,
- * e.g. ENOMEM error.
- */
- ret = check_mm_seal(start, end);
- if (ret)
+ if (range_contains_unmapped(mm, start, end)) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
+ }
/*
* Second pass, this should success, unless there are errors
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-15 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-15 13:37 [PATCH v2 0/5] mseal cleanups, fixup MAP_PRIVATE file-backed case Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-15 13:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] mm/mseal: always define VM_SEALED Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-15 13:37 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mm/mseal: update madvise() logic Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-16 13:37 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-15 13:37 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] mm/mseal: small cleanups Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-15 13:37 ` Lorenzo Stoakes [this message]
2025-07-16 13:38 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] mm/mseal: Simplify and rename VMA gap check David Hildenbrand
2025-07-16 15:01 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-15 13:37 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] mm/mseal: rework mseal apply logic Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-15 16:09 ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-07-16 14:53 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-16 13:41 ` David Hildenbrand
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