From 325896ffdf90f7cbd59fb873b7ba20d60d1ddf3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Williams Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 17:03:35 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] device-dax: fix private mapping restriction, permit read-only Hugh notes in response to commit 4cb19355ea19 "device-dax: fail all private mapping attempts": "I think that is more restrictive than you intended: haven't tried, but I believe it rejects a PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, O_RDONLY fd mmap, leaving no way to mmap /dev/dax without write permission to it." Indeed it does restrict read-only mappings, switch to checking VM_MAYSHARE, not VM_SHARED. Cc: Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Pawel Lebioda Fixes: 4cb19355ea19 ("device-dax: fail all private mapping attempts") Reported-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Dan Williams --- drivers/dax/dax.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/dax/dax.c b/drivers/dax/dax.c index 3d94ff2..286447a 100644 --- a/drivers/dax/dax.c +++ b/drivers/dax/dax.c @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static int check_vma(struct dax_dev *dax_dev, struct vm_area_struct *vma, return -ENXIO; /* prevent private mappings from being established */ - if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) != VM_SHARED) { + if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE) != VM_MAYSHARE) { dev_info(dev, "%s: %s: fail, attempted private mapping\n", current->comm, func); return -EINVAL; -- 2.7.4