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authorJANAK DESAI <janak@us.ibm.com>2006-02-07 12:59:01 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-02-07 16:12:34 -0800
commita0a7ec308f1be5957b20a1a535d21f683dfd83f0 (patch)
tree3814ee7b6aa51558d7c2200e41d587c9150389e5 /kernel/fork.c
parent741a295130606143edbf9fc740f633dbc1e6225f (diff)
downloadlinux-a0a7ec308f1be5957b20a1a535d21f683dfd83f0.tar.bz2
[PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare vm
If vm structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy information from the current, shared, structure. Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c87
1 files changed, 56 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 07dd241aa1e0..d1aceaea3f33 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -446,6 +446,55 @@ void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
}
}
+/*
+ * Allocate a new mm structure and copy contents from the
+ * mm structure of the passed in task structure.
+ */
+static struct mm_struct *dup_mm(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm, *oldmm = current->mm;
+ int err;
+
+ if (!oldmm)
+ return NULL;
+
+ mm = allocate_mm();
+ if (!mm)
+ goto fail_nomem;
+
+ memcpy(mm, oldmm, sizeof(*mm));
+
+ if (!mm_init(mm))
+ goto fail_nomem;
+
+ if (init_new_context(tsk, mm))
+ goto fail_nocontext;
+
+ err = dup_mmap(mm, oldmm);
+ if (err)
+ goto free_pt;
+
+ mm->hiwater_rss = get_mm_rss(mm);
+ mm->hiwater_vm = mm->total_vm;
+
+ return mm;
+
+free_pt:
+ mmput(mm);
+
+fail_nomem:
+ return NULL;
+
+fail_nocontext:
+ /*
+ * If init_new_context() failed, we cannot use mmput() to free the mm
+ * because it calls destroy_context()
+ */
+ mm_free_pgd(mm);
+ free_mm(mm);
+ return NULL;
+}
+
static int copy_mm(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * tsk)
{
struct mm_struct * mm, *oldmm;
@@ -473,43 +522,17 @@ static int copy_mm(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * tsk)
}
retval = -ENOMEM;
- mm = allocate_mm();
+ mm = dup_mm(tsk);
if (!mm)
goto fail_nomem;
- /* Copy the current MM stuff.. */
- memcpy(mm, oldmm, sizeof(*mm));
- if (!mm_init(mm))
- goto fail_nomem;
-
- if (init_new_context(tsk,mm))
- goto fail_nocontext;
-
- retval = dup_mmap(mm, oldmm);
- if (retval)
- goto free_pt;
-
- mm->hiwater_rss = get_mm_rss(mm);
- mm->hiwater_vm = mm->total_vm;
-
good_mm:
tsk->mm = mm;
tsk->active_mm = mm;
return 0;
-free_pt:
- mmput(mm);
fail_nomem:
return retval;
-
-fail_nocontext:
- /*
- * If init_new_context() failed, we cannot use mmput() to free the mm
- * because it calls destroy_context()
- */
- mm_free_pgd(mm);
- free_mm(mm);
- return retval;
}
static inline struct fs_struct *__copy_fs_struct(struct fs_struct *old)
@@ -1423,18 +1446,20 @@ static int unshare_sighand(unsigned long unshare_flags, struct sighand_struct **
}
/*
- * Unsharing of vm for tasks created with CLONE_VM is not supported yet
+ * Unshare vm if it is being shared
*/
static int unshare_vm(unsigned long unshare_flags, struct mm_struct **new_mmp)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
if ((unshare_flags & CLONE_VM) &&
- (mm && atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1))
- return -EINVAL;
+ (mm && atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1)) {
+ *new_mmp = dup_mm(current);
+ if (!*new_mmp)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
return 0;
-
}
/*