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-rw-r--r--include/linux/vmalloc.h2
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c7
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 0ed56fc10c11..6e022cc712e6 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ struct notifier_block; /* in notifier.h */
#define VM_USERMAP 0x00000008 /* suitable for remap_vmalloc_range */
#define VM_DMA_COHERENT 0x00000010 /* dma_alloc_coherent */
#define VM_UNINITIALIZED 0x00000020 /* vm_struct is not fully initialized */
-#define VM_NO_GUARD 0x00000040 /* don't add guard page */
+#define VM_NO_GUARD 0x00000040 /* ***DANGEROUS*** don't add guard page */
#define VM_KASAN 0x00000080 /* has allocated kasan shadow memory */
#define VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS 0x00000100 /* reset direct map and flush TLB on unmap, can't be freed in atomic context */
#define VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES 0x00000200 /* put pages and free array in vfree */
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index f43c88fa08cf..4a11abd9e70f 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2743,6 +2743,13 @@ void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned int count,
might_sleep();
+ /*
+ * Your top guard is someone else's bottom guard. Not having a top
+ * guard compromises someone else's mappings too.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & VM_NO_GUARD))
+ flags &= ~VM_NO_GUARD;
+
if (count > totalram_pages())
return NULL;