From bc81426f5beef7da863d3365bc9d45e820448745 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Koutný Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 22:30:19 -0700 Subject: prctl_set_mm: downgrade mmap_sem to read lock MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The commit a3b609ef9f8b ("proc read mm's {arg,env}_{start,end} with mmap semaphore taken.") added synchronization of reading argument/environment boundaries under mmap_sem. Later commit 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct") avoided the coarse use of mmap_sem in similar situations. But there still remained two places that (mis)use mmap_sem. get_cmdline should also use arg_lock instead of mmap_sem when it reads the boundaries. The second place that should use arg_lock is in prctl_set_mm. By protecting the boundaries fields with the arg_lock, we can downgrade mmap_sem to reader lock (analogous to what we already do in prctl_set_mm_map). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190502125203.24014-3-mkoutny@suse.com Fixes: 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct") Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour Co-developed-by: Laurent Dufour Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/util.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 91682a2090ee..9834c4ab7d8e 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -718,12 +718,12 @@ int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen) if (!mm->arg_end) goto out_mm; /* Shh! No looking before we're done */ - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock); arg_start = mm->arg_start; arg_end = mm->arg_end; env_start = mm->env_start; env_end = mm->env_end; - up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock); len = arg_end - arg_start; -- cgit v1.2.3