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There is a (harmless) type confusion in lock_vma_under_rcu(): After
vma_start_read(), we have taken the VMA lock but don't know yet whether
the VMA has already been detached and scheduled for RCU freeing. At this
point, ->vm_start and ->vm_end are accessed.
vm_area_struct contains a union such that ->vm_rcu uses the same memory as
->vm_start and ->vm_end; so accessing ->vm_start and ->vm_end of a
detached VMA is illegal and leads to type confusion between union members.
Fix it by reordering the vma->detached check above the address checks, and
document the rules for RCU readers accessing VMAs.
This will probably change the number of observed VMA_LOCK_MISS events
(since previously, trying to access a detached VMA whose ->vm_rcu has been
scheduled would bail out when checking the fault address against the
rcu_head members reinterpreted as VMA bounds).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240805-fix-vma-lock-type-confusion-v1-1-9f25443a9a71@google.com
Fixes: 50ee325372 ("mm: introduce lock_vma_under_rcu to be used from arch-specific code")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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