Patch series "Make core VMA operations internal and testable", v4.
There are a number of "core" VMA manipulation functions implemented in
mm/mmap.c, notably those concerning VMA merging, splitting, modifying,
expanding and shrinking, which logically don't belong there.
More importantly this functionality represents an internal implementation
detail of memory management and should not be exposed outside of mm/
itself.
This patch series isolates core VMA manipulation functionality into its
own file, mm/vma.c, and provides an API to the rest of the mm code in
mm/vma.h.
Importantly, it also carefully implements mm/vma_internal.h, which
specifies which headers need to be imported by vma.c, leading to the very
useful property that vma.c depends only on mm/vma.h and mm/vma_internal.h.
This means we can then re-implement vma_internal.h in userland, adding
shims for kernel mechanisms as required, allowing us to unit test internal
VMA functionality.
This testing is useful as opposed to an e.g. kunit implementation as this
way we can avoid all external kernel side-effects while testing, run tests
VERY quickly, and iterate on and debug problems quickly.
Excitingly this opens the door to, in the future, recreating precise
problems observed in production in userland and very quickly debugging
problems that might otherwise be very difficult to reproduce.
This patch series takes advantage of existing shim logic and full userland
maple tree support contained in tools/testing/radix-tree/ and
tools/include/linux/, separating out shared components of the radix tree
implementation to provide this testing.
Kernel functionality is stubbed and shimmed as needed in
tools/testing/vma/ which contains a fully functional userland
vma_internal.h file and which imports mm/vma.c and mm/vma.h to be directly
tested from userland.
A simple, skeleton testing implementation is provided in
tools/testing/vma/vma.c as a proof-of-concept, asserting that simple VMA
merge, modify (testing split), expand and shrink functionality work
correctly.
This patch (of 4):
This patch forms part of a patch series intending to separate out VMA
logic and render it testable from userspace, which requires that core
manipulation functions be exposed in an mm/-internal header file.
In order to do this, we must abstract APIs we wish to test, in this
instance functions which ultimately invoke vma_modify().
This patch therefore moves all logic which ultimately invokes vma_modify()
to mm/userfaultfd.c, trying to transfer code at a functional granularity
where possible.
[lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: fix user-after-free in userfaultfd_clear_vma()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3c947ddc-b804-49b7-8fe9-3ea3ca13def5@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1722251717.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/50c3ed995fd81c45876c86304c8a00bf3e396cfd.1722251717.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Rae Moar <rmoar@google.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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