From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265276AbTLMSIj (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:08:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265279AbTLMSIj (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:08:39 -0500 Received: from purplechoc.demon.co.uk ([80.176.224.106]:4224 "EHLO skeleton-jack.localnet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265276AbTLMSIg (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:08:36 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:08:28 +0000 To: Ralf Baechle Cc: Peter Horton , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Possible shared mapping bug in 2.4.23 (at least MIPS/Sparc) Message-ID: <20031213180828.GA480@skeleton-jack> References: <20031213114134.GA9896@skeleton-jack> <20031213160536.GA13271@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031213160536.GA13271@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Peter Horton Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 05:05:36PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:41:34AM +0000, Peter Horton wrote: > > > The current MIPS 2.4 kernel (from CVS) currently allows fixed shared > > mappings to violate D-cache aliasing constraints. > > > > The check for illegal fixed mappings is done in > > arch_get_unmapped_area(), but these mappings are granted in > > get_unmapped_area() and arch_get_unmapped_area() is never called. > > > > A quick look at sparc and sparc64 seem to show the same problem. > > Ehh... defines HAVE_ARCH_UNMAPPED_AREA therefore > get_unmapped_area calls the arch's version of arch_get_unmapped_area > instead of the generic version in mm/mmap.c > arch_get_unmapped_area() never get called because get_unmapped_area() notices the MAP_FIXED flag and returns success. In the example below the second mmap() should fail because it violates the shm_align_mask. P. pdh@qube2:~$ uname -a Linux qube2 2.4.23 #2 Sat Dec 13 18:03:10 GMT 2003 mips unknown pdh@qube2:~$ ./shared 0xdeadbeef 0 pdh@qube2:~$ cat shared.c #include #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { static char zero; void *p1, *p2; int fd; fd = open("/tmp/test.shared", O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC, 0664); if(fd == -1) return 1; unlink("/tmp/test.shared"); lseek(fd, PAGE_SIZE - 1, SEEK_SET); if(write(fd, &zero, 1) != 1) return 1; p1 = mmap(NULL, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); if(p1 == MAP_FAILED) return 1; p2 = mmap(p1 + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED, fd, 0); if(p2 == MAP_FAILED || p2 - p1 != PAGE_SIZE) return 1; *(int *) p2 = 0xdeadbeef; printf("%#x %#x\n", *(int *) p2, *(int *) p1); return 0; } pdh@qube2:~$