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mm: don't prepare anon_vma if vma has VM_WIPEONFORK
Patch series "mm: Fix misuse of parent anon_vma in dup_mmap path". This patchset fixes the misuse of parenet anon_vma, which mainly caused by child vma's vm_next and vm_prev are left same as its parent after duplicate vma. Finally, code reached parent vma's neighbor by referring pointer of child vma and executed wrong logic. The first two patches fix relevant issues, and the third patch sets vm_next and vm_prev to NULL when duplicate vma to prevent potential misuse in future. Effects of the first bug is that causes rmap code to check both parent and child's page table, although a page couldn't be mapped by both parent and child, because child vma has WIPEONFORK so all pages mapped by child are 'new' and not relevant to parent. Effects of the second bug is that the relationship of anon_vma of parent and child are totallyconvoluted. It would cause 'son', 'grandson', ..., etc, to share 'parent' anon_vma, which disobey the design rule of reusing anon_vma (the rule to be followed is that reusing should among vma of same process, and vma should not gone through fork). So, both issues should cause unnecessary rmap walking and have unexpected complexity. These two issues would not be directly visible, I used debugging code to check the anon_vma pointers of parent and child when inspecting the suspicious implementation of issue #2, then find the problem. This patch (of 3): In dup_mmap(), anon_vma_prepare() is called for vma has VM_WIPEONFORK, and parameter 'tmp' (i.e., the new vma of child) has same ->vm_next and ->vm_prev as its parent vma. That allows anon_vma used by parent been mistakenly shared by child (find_mergeable_anon_vma() will do this reuse work). Besides this issue, call anon_vma_prepare() should be avoided because we don't copy page for this vma. Preparing anon_vma will be handled during fault. Fixes: d2cd9ede ("mm,fork: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK") Signed-off-by:Li Xinhai <lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: