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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rmap: anon_vma_prepare() can leak anon_vma_chain
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:24:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100420192420.GA20840@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BCD0E78.9050904@redhat.com>

If find_mergeable_anon_vma() succeeds but another thread installs
->anon_vma before we take ptl, then allocated == NULL but avc should
be freed. Change the code to check avc != NULL to detect this case.

Also, a couple of whitespace changes to make the critical section more
visible.

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

 mm/rmap.c |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- 34-rc1/mm/rmap.c~AVP_AVC_LEAK	2010-03-11 13:11:50.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/mm/rmap.c	2010-04-20 21:05:24.000000000 +0200
@@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ int anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_stru
 				goto out_enomem_free_avc;
 			allocated = anon_vma;
 		}
-		spin_lock(&anon_vma->lock);
 
+		spin_lock(&anon_vma->lock);
 		/* page_table_lock to protect against threads */
 		spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 		if (likely(!vma->anon_vma)) {
@@ -144,14 +144,15 @@ int anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_stru
 			list_add(&avc->same_vma, &vma->anon_vma_chain);
 			list_add(&avc->same_anon_vma, &anon_vma->head);
 			allocated = NULL;
+			avc = NULL;
 		}
 		spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
-
 		spin_unlock(&anon_vma->lock);
-		if (unlikely(allocated)) {
+
+		if (unlikely(allocated))
 			anon_vma_free(allocated);
+		if (unlikely(avc))
 			anon_vma_chain_free(avc);
-		}
 	}
 	return 0;
 


       reply	other threads:[~2010-04-20 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100415120940.GA31762@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <4BCD0E78.9050904@redhat.com>
2010-04-20 19:24   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-04-20 20:47     ` [PATCH] rmap: anon_vma_prepare() can leak anon_vma_chain Rik van Riel

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