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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/9] uprobes: cleanup and document write_opcode()->lock_page(old_page)
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:46:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120713164629.GA23548@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120713164552.GA23509@redhat.com>

The comment above write_opcode()->lock_page(old_page) tells about
the race with do_wp_page(). I don't really understand which exactly
race it means, but afaics this lock_page() was not enough to close
all races with do_wp_page().

Anyway, since 77fc4af1 this code is always called with ->mmap_sem
hold for writing so we can forget about do_wp_page().

However, we can't simply remove this lock_page(), and the only
(afaics) reason is __replace_page()->try_to_free_swap().

Nothing in write_opcode() needs it, move it into __replace_page()
and fix the comment.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c |   27 ++++++++++++++-------------
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index dff8da2..67697db 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -139,10 +139,15 @@ static int __replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
 	spinlock_t *ptl;
 	pte_t *ptep;
+	int err;
 
+	/* freeze PageSwapCache() for try_to_free_swap() below */
+	lock_page(page);
+
+	err = -EAGAIN;
 	ptep = page_check_address(page, mm, addr, &ptl, 0);
 	if (!ptep)
-		return -EAGAIN;
+		goto unlock;
 
 	get_page(kpage);
 	page_add_new_anon_rmap(kpage, vma, addr);
@@ -162,7 +167,10 @@ static int __replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 	put_page(page);
 	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
 
-	return 0;
+	err = 0;
+ unlock:
+	unlock_page(page);
+	return err;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -216,15 +224,10 @@ retry:
 	ret = -ENOMEM;
 	new_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma, vaddr);
 	if (!new_page)
-		goto put_out;
+		goto put_old;
 
 	__SetPageUptodate(new_page);
 
-	/*
-	 * lock page will serialize against do_wp_page()'s
-	 * PageAnon() handling
-	 */
-	lock_page(old_page);
 	/* copy the page now that we've got it stable */
 	vaddr_old = kmap_atomic(old_page);
 	vaddr_new = kmap_atomic(new_page);
@@ -237,15 +240,13 @@ retry:
 
 	ret = anon_vma_prepare(vma);
 	if (ret)
-		goto unlock_out;
+		goto put_new;
 
 	ret = __replace_page(vma, vaddr, old_page, new_page);
 
-unlock_out:
-	unlock_page(old_page);
+put_new:
 	page_cache_release(new_page);
-
-put_out:
+put_old:
 	put_page(old_page);
 
 	if (unlikely(ret == -EAGAIN))
-- 
1.5.5.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-13 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-13 16:45 [PATCH 0/9] uprobes: misc, resend Oleg Nesterov
2012-07-13 16:46 ` [PATCH 1/9] uprobes: don't recheck vma/f_mapping in write_opcode() Oleg Nesterov
2012-07-13 16:46 ` [PATCH 2/9] uprobes: __replace_page() should not use page_address_in_vma() Oleg Nesterov
2012-07-13 16:46 ` [PATCH 3/9] uprobes: kill write_opcode()->lock_page(new_page) Oleg Nesterov
2012-07-13 16:46 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2012-07-13 16:46 ` [PATCH 5/9] uprobes: uprobe_mmap/munmap needs list_for_each_entry_safe() Oleg Nesterov
2012-07-13 16:46 ` [PATCH 6/9] uprobes: suppress uprobe_munmap() from mmput() Oleg Nesterov
2012-07-13 16:46 ` [PATCH 7/9] uprobes: fix overflow in vma_address/find_active_uprobe Oleg Nesterov
2012-07-13 16:46 ` [PATCH 8/9] uprobes: kill copy_vma()->uprobe_mmap() Oleg Nesterov
2012-07-13 16:46 ` [PATCH 9/9] uprobes: kill insert_vm_struct()->uprobe_mmap() Oleg Nesterov

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