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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm_for_maps: shift down_read(mmap_sem) to the caller
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:27:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090710012738.GA392@redhat.com> (raw)

mm_for_maps() takes ->mmap_sem after security checks, this looks
strange and obfuscates the locking rules. Move this lock to its
single caller, m_start().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---

 fs/proc/task_mmu.c   |    1 +
 fs/proc/task_nommu.c |    1 +
 fs/proc/base.c       |    8 +++-----
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- WAIT/fs/proc/task_mmu.c~1_MOVE_MMAP_SEM	2009-05-03 17:15:27.000000000 +0200
+++ WAIT/fs/proc/task_mmu.c	2009-07-10 02:00:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ static void *m_start(struct seq_file *m,
 	mm = mm_for_maps(priv->task);
 	if (!mm)
 		return NULL;
+	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 
 	tail_vma = get_gate_vma(priv->task);
 	priv->tail_vma = tail_vma;
--- WAIT/fs/proc/task_nommu.c~1_MOVE_MMAP_SEM	2009-04-09 00:39:09.000000000 +0200
+++ WAIT/fs/proc/task_nommu.c	2009-07-10 02:01:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ static void *m_start(struct seq_file *m,
 		priv->task = NULL;
 		return NULL;
 	}
+	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 
 	/* start from the Nth VMA */
 	for (p = rb_first(&mm->mm_rb); p; p = rb_next(p))
--- WAIT/fs/proc/base.c~1_MOVE_MMAP_SEM	2009-07-09 17:56:27.000000000 +0200
+++ WAIT/fs/proc/base.c	2009-07-10 02:05:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -235,9 +235,8 @@ static int check_mem_permission(struct t
 struct mm_struct *mm_for_maps(struct task_struct *task)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(task);
-	if (!mm)
-		return NULL;
-	if (mm != current->mm) {
+
+	if (mm && mm != current->mm) {
 		/*
 		 * task->mm can be changed before security check,
 		 * in that case we must notice the change after.
@@ -245,10 +244,9 @@ struct mm_struct *mm_for_maps(struct tas
 		if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ) ||
 		    mm != task->mm) {
 			mmput(mm);
-			return NULL;
+			mm = NULL;
 		}
 	}
-	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	return mm;
 }
 


             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-10  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-10  1:27 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-07-10  3:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm_for_maps: shift down_read(mmap_sem) to the caller Serge E. Hallyn

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