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authorBenjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>2013-09-09 11:57:59 -0400
committerBenjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>2013-09-09 11:57:59 -0400
commitd6c355c7dabcd753a75bc77d150d36328a355267 (patch)
tree97b30abf03e5758fca4eef8572de38b77af54ae8 /drivers/staging
parent77d30b14d24e557f89c41980011d72428514d729 (diff)
downloadlinux-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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