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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2008-12-10 20:48:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-12-10 14:40:45 -0800 |
| commit | b88ed20594db2c685555b68c52b693b75738b2f5 (patch) | |
| tree | a8edcf975fb8437692bf670841859d4ac9fbd2f0 /kernel | |
| parent | f4fd2c5b6f691ff71614acbc28461b3c1488c81b (diff) | |
| download | linux-b88ed20594db2c685555b68c52b693b75738b2f5.tar.bz2 | |
fix mapping_writably_mapped()
Lee Schermerhorn noticed yesterday that I broke the mapping_writably_mapped
test in 2.6.7! Bad bad bug, good good find.
The i_mmap_writable count must be incremented for VM_SHARED (just as
i_writecount is for VM_DENYWRITE, but while holding the i_mmap_lock)
when dup_mmap() copies the vma for fork: it has its own more optimal
version of __vma_link_file(), and I missed this out. So the count
was later going down to 0 (dangerous) when one end unmapped, then
wrapping negative (inefficient) when the other end unmapped.
The only impact on x86 would have been that setting a mandatory lock on
a file which has at some time been opened O_RDWR and mapped MAP_SHARED
(but not necessarily PROT_WRITE) across a fork, might fail with -EAGAIN
when it should succeed, or succeed when it should fail.
But those architectures which rely on flush_dcache_page() to flush
userspace modifications back into the page before the kernel reads it,
may in some cases have skipped the flush after such a fork - though any
repetitive test will soon wrap the count negative, in which case it will
flush_dcache_page() unnecessarily.
Fix would be a two-liner, but mapping variable added, and comment moved.
Reported-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 8d6a7dd9282b..495da2e9a8b4 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -315,17 +315,20 @@ static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm) file = tmp->vm_file; if (file) { struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode; + struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping; + get_file(file); if (tmp->vm_flags & VM_DENYWRITE) atomic_dec(&inode->i_writecount); - - /* insert tmp into the share list, just after mpnt */ - spin_lock(&file->f_mapping->i_mmap_lock); + spin_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock); + if (tmp->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) + mapping->i_mmap_writable++; tmp->vm_truncate_count = mpnt->vm_truncate_count; - flush_dcache_mmap_lock(file->f_mapping); + flush_dcache_mmap_lock(mapping); + /* insert tmp into the share list, just after mpnt */ vma_prio_tree_add(tmp, mpnt); - flush_dcache_mmap_unlock(file->f_mapping); - spin_unlock(&file->f_mapping->i_mmap_lock); + flush_dcache_mmap_unlock(mapping); + spin_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock); } /* |