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author | Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> | 2013-09-09 11:57:59 -0400 |
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committer | Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> | 2013-09-09 11:57:59 -0400 |
commit | d6c355c7dabcd753a75bc77d150d36328a355267 (patch) | |
tree | 97b30abf03e5758fca4eef8572de38b77af54ae8 /drivers/staging | |
parent | 77d30b14d24e557f89c41980011d72428514d729 (diff) | |
download | linux-d6c355c7dabcd753a75bc77d150d36328a355267.tar.bz2 |
aio: fix race in ring buffer page lookup introduced by page migration support
Prior to the introduction of page migration support in "fs/aio: Add support
to aio ring pages migration" / 36bc08cc01709b4a9bb563b35aa530241ddc63e3,
mapping of the ring buffer pages was done via get_user_pages() while
retaining mmap_sem held for write. This avoided possible races with userland
racing an munmap() or mremap(). The page migration patch, however, switched
to using mm_populate() to prime the page mapping. mm_populate() cannot be
called with mmap_sem held.
Instead of dropping the mmap_sem, revert to the old behaviour and simply
drop the use of mm_populate() since get_user_pages() will cause the pages to
get mapped anyways. Thanks to Al Viro for spotting this issue.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
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