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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kenneth.w.chen@intel.com
Subject: Re: disable-cap-mlock
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 04:13:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040402021323.GP18585@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040401180441.B22989@build.pdx.osdl.net>

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 06:04:41PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de) wrote:
> > what you missed is that after you locked_vm -= you don't free anything,
> > you only unmap them from the address space which means nothing in terms
> > of amount if pinned ram.
> 
> doesn't it free the huge page right there?  each page gets
> huge_page_released, right?

that has nothing to do with freeing the page, that's just releasing 1
refcount, because you dropped the pte mapping, the page is still there
healthy in the pagecache ready for somebody else to shmat. If you were
right then a shmdt+shmat would corrupt the SGA.

Your patch breaks local security and it's trivial to DoS a machine with
it applied as far as I can tell.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-02  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01 13:59 disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 14:12 ` disable-cap-mlock Martin Zwickel
2004-04-01 16:48 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 16:59   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:11     ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 17:16     ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:34       ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:38         ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:42           ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:37       ` disable-cap-mlock Stephen Smalley
2004-04-01 17:44         ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:49           ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:51           ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 18:12             ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:52           ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 17:54             ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 18:47               ` disable-cap-mlock Stephen Smalley
2004-04-01 19:26                 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 20:23                   ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 21:13                     ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 21:31                       ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 18:34       ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-01 18:49         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 18:52         ` disable-cap-mlock Chen, Kenneth W
2004-04-01 18:59         ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 19:27         ` disable-cap-mlock James Morris
2004-04-02 10:39   ` disable-cap-mlock Pavel Machek
2004-04-02 23:44     ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 19:44 ` disable-cap-mlock Rik van Riel
2004-04-01 19:52   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-01 22:36     ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 22:43       ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 23:08       ` disable-cap-mlock Rik van Riel
2004-04-01 23:26         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  0:59           ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-01 22:29   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  1:07 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  1:18   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  1:30     ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  1:35       ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:04         ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  2:13           ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-04-02  2:21             ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  2:38               ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:48                 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  1:30   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02  1:59     ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  2:09       ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:30         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02  2:33           ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  2:45             ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02  2:51               ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  3:21                 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-02  2:41           ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:49             ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02  3:07               ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 21:35     ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 22:36       ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02 22:56         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 23:01         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 23:18           ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-05 12:13       ` disable-cap-mlock Stephen Smalley

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