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authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>2011-05-26 16:25:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-26 17:12:37 -0700
commit30cd8903913dac7b0918807cac46be3ecde5a5a7 (patch)
tree64022195d9a384c11b93a4b1299aa944b8293deb /fs/proc
parenta4dbf0ec2aa3e8aca6e63f598095750c232d50f1 (diff)
downloadlinux-30cd8903913dac7b0918807cac46be3ecde5a5a7.tar.bz2
proc: put check_mem_permission after __get_free_page in mem_write
It whould be better if put check_mem_permission after __get_free_page in mem_write, to be same as function mem_read. Hugh Dickins explained the reason. check_mem_permission gets a reference to the mm. If we __get_free_page after check_mem_permission, imagine what happens if the system is out of memory, and the mm we're looking at is selected for killing by the OOM killer: while we wait in __get_free_page for more memory, no memory is freed from the selected mm because it cannot reach exit_mmap while we hold that reference. Reported-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 0c2c50cc2cca..4ede550517a6 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -894,20 +894,20 @@ static ssize_t mem_write(struct file * file, const char __user *buf,
if (!task)
goto out_no_task;
+ copied = -ENOMEM;
+ page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY);
+ if (!page)
+ goto out_task;
+
mm = check_mem_permission(task);
copied = PTR_ERR(mm);
if (IS_ERR(mm))
- goto out_task;
+ goto out_free;
copied = -EIO;
if (file->private_data != (void *)((long)current->self_exec_id))
goto out_mm;
- copied = -ENOMEM;
- page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY);
- if (!page)
- goto out_mm;
-
copied = 0;
while (count > 0) {
int this_len, retval;
@@ -929,9 +929,11 @@ static ssize_t mem_write(struct file * file, const char __user *buf,
count -= retval;
}
*ppos = dst;
- free_page((unsigned long) page);
+
out_mm:
mmput(mm);
+out_free:
+ free_page((unsigned long) page);
out_task:
put_task_struct(task);
out_no_task: