From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:54:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1335369260-9761-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> (raw)
From: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
We can't be holding the mmap_sem while calling flush_cache_user_range
because the flush can fault. If we fault on a user address, the
page fault handler will try to take mmap_sem again. Since both places
acquire the read lock, most of the time it succeeds. However, if another
thread tries to acquire the write lock on the mmap_sem (e.g. mmap) in
between the call to flush_cache_user_range and the fault, the down_read
in do_page_fault will deadlock.
Also, since we really can't be holding the mmap_sem while calling
flush_cache_user_range AND vma is actually unused by the flush itself,
get rid of vma as an argument.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
---
Note: I'm including this as a prerequisite to the following patch but if
there are still objections to this then I can rebase without it.
arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 2 +-
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index d5d8d5c..1252a26 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ extern void flush_cache_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long user_addr
* Harvard caches are synchronised for the user space address range.
* This is used for the ARM private sys_cacheflush system call.
*/
-#define flush_cache_user_range(vma,start,end) \
+#define flush_cache_user_range(start,end) \
__cpuc_coherent_user_range((start) & PAGE_MASK, PAGE_ALIGN(end))
/*
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
index 7784547..63d402f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -496,7 +496,9 @@ do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int flags)
if (end > vma->vm_end)
end = vma->vm_end;
- flush_cache_user_range(vma, start, end);
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ flush_cache_user_range(start, end);
+ return;
}
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
}
--
1.7.4.1
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2012-04-25 15:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: cacheflush: return error to userspace when flushing syscall fails Will Deacon
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