device-dax: fail all private mapping attempts
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:00:38 +0000 (09:00 -0800)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:00:38 +0000 (09:00 -0800)
The device-dax implementation originally tried to be tricky and allow
private read-only mappings, but in the process allowed writable
MAP_PRIVATE + MAP_NORESERVE mappings.  For simplicity and predictability
just fail all private mapping attempts since device-dax memory is
statically allocated and will never support overcommit.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: dee410792419 ("/dev/dax, core: file operations and dax-mmap")
Reported-by: Pawel Lebioda <pawel.lebioda@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
drivers/dax/dax.c

index 0e499bf..3d94ff2 100644 (file)
@@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ static int check_vma(struct dax_dev *dax_dev, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
        if (!dax_dev->alive)
                return -ENXIO;
 
-       /* prevent private / writable mappings from being established */
-       if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_NORESERVE|VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE)) == VM_WRITE) {
+       /* prevent private mappings from being established */
+       if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) != VM_SHARED) {
                dev_info(dev, "%s: %s: fail, attempted private mapping\n",
                                current->comm, func);
                return -EINVAL;