Revert "mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to better deal with racy userspace programs"
This reverts commit 186930500985 ("mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to
better deal with racy userspace programs").
VM_POPULATE only has any effect when userspace plays racy games with
vmas by trying to unmap and remap memory regions that mmap or mlock are
operating on.
Also, the only effect of VM_POPULATE when userspace plays such games is
that it avoids populating new memory regions that get remapped into the
address range that was being operated on by the original mmap or mlock
calls.
Let's remove VM_POPULATE as there isn't any strong argument to mandate a
new vm_flag.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index 1c5e33f..79b7cf7 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@
newflags = vma->vm_flags & ~VM_LOCKED;
if (on)
- newflags |= VM_LOCKED | VM_POPULATE;
+ newflags |= VM_LOCKED;
tmp = vma->vm_end;
if (tmp > end)
@@ -418,8 +418,7 @@
* range with the first VMA. Also, skip undesirable VMA types.
*/
nend = min(end, vma->vm_end);
- if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP | VM_POPULATE)) !=
- VM_POPULATE)
+ if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP))
continue;
if (nstart < vma->vm_start)
nstart = vma->vm_start;
@@ -492,9 +491,9 @@
struct vm_area_struct * vma, * prev = NULL;
if (flags & MCL_FUTURE)
- current->mm->def_flags |= VM_LOCKED | VM_POPULATE;
+ current->mm->def_flags |= VM_LOCKED;
else
- current->mm->def_flags &= ~(VM_LOCKED | VM_POPULATE);
+ current->mm->def_flags &= ~VM_LOCKED;
if (flags == MCL_FUTURE)
goto out;
@@ -503,7 +502,7 @@
newflags = vma->vm_flags & ~VM_LOCKED;
if (flags & MCL_CURRENT)
- newflags |= VM_LOCKED | VM_POPULATE;
+ newflags |= VM_LOCKED;
/* Ignore errors */
mlock_fixup(vma, &prev, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, newflags);