Re: [PACTH v4 1/3] mm, proc: Implement /proc/<pid>/totmaps

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:36:26PM -0400, Robert Foss wrote:

On 2016-08-31 05:45 AM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:

quoted

quoted

+static void *m_totmaps_start(struct seq_file *p, loff_t *pos)
+{
+    return NULL + (*pos == 0);
+}
+
+static void *m_totmaps_next(struct seq_file *p, void *v, loff_t *pos)
+{
+    ++*pos;
+    return NULL;
+}
+

When reading totmaps of kernel processes the following NULL pointer
dereference occurs:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000044
[<c06c01f4>] (down_read) from [<c022a154>] (totmaps_proc_show+0x2c/0x1e8)
[<c022a154>] (totmaps_proc_show) from [<c01fe564>] (seq_read+0x1c8/0x4b8)
[<c01fe564>] (seq_read) from [<c01dc850>] (__vfs_read+0x2c/0x110)
[<c01dc850>] (__vfs_read) from [<c01ddca0>] (vfs_read+0x8c/0x110)
[<c01ddca0>] (vfs_read) from [<c01ddd64>] (SyS_read+0x40/0x8c)
[<c01ddd64>] (SyS_read) from [<c0107900>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x3c)

It seems that some protection is needed for such processes, so that
totmaps would return empty string then, like in case of smaps.

Thanks for the testing Jacek!

I had a look around the corresponding smaps code, but I'm not seeing any
checks, do you know where that check actually is made?

See m_start in f/sproc/task_mmu.c. It not only check for non-null mm,
but also tries to bump ->mm_users and only then proceeds to walk the mm.

-- 
Mateusz Guzik