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Use the maple tree in RCU mode for VMA tracking.
The maple tree tracks the stack and is able to update the pivot
(lower/upper boundary) in-place to allow the page fault handler to write
to the tree while holding just the mmap read lock. This is safe as the
writes to the stack have a guard VMA which ensures there will always be a
NULL in the direction of the growth and thus will only update a pivot.
It is possible, but not recommended, to have VMAs that grow up/down
without guard VMAs. syzbot has constructed a testcase which sets up a VMA
to grow and consume the empty space. Overwriting the entire NULL entry
causes the tree to be altered in a way that is not safe for concurrent
readers; the readers may see a node being rewritten or one that does not
match the maple state they are using.
Enabling RCU mode allows the concurrent readers to see a stable node and
will return the expected result.
[Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com: we don't need to free the nodes with RCU[
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/000000000000b0a65805f663ace6@google.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-9-surenb@google.com
Fixes: d4af56c5c7 ("mm: start tracking VMAs with maple tree")
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+8d95422d3537159ca390@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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