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-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c8
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h2
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c1
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c10
-rw-r--r--mm/init-mm.c1
5 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index af128b374143..ef3f7df50023 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -239,12 +239,12 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_cmdline_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
goto out_mmput;
}
- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock);
arg_start = mm->arg_start;
arg_end = mm->arg_end;
env_start = mm->env_start;
env_end = mm->env_end;
- up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock);
BUG_ON(arg_start > arg_end);
BUG_ON(env_start > env_end);
@@ -927,10 +927,10 @@ static ssize_t environ_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
if (!mmget_not_zero(mm))
goto free;
- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock);
env_start = mm->env_start;
env_end = mm->env_end;
- up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock);
while (count > 0) {
size_t this_len, max_len;
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 21612347d311..49dd59ea90f7 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -413,6 +413,8 @@ struct mm_struct {
unsigned long exec_vm; /* VM_EXEC & ~VM_WRITE & ~VM_STACK */
unsigned long stack_vm; /* VM_STACK */
unsigned long def_flags;
+
+ spinlock_t arg_lock; /* protect the below fields */
unsigned long start_code, end_code, start_data, end_data;
unsigned long start_brk, brk, start_stack;
unsigned long arg_start, arg_end, env_start, env_end;
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 80b48a8fb47b..c6d1c1ce9ed7 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -899,6 +899,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
mm->pinned_vm = 0;
memset(&mm->rss_stat, 0, sizeof(mm->rss_stat));
spin_lock_init(&mm->page_table_lock);
+ spin_lock_init(&mm->arg_lock);
mm_init_cpumask(mm);
mm_init_aio(mm);
mm_init_owner(mm, p);
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index d1b2b8d934bb..38509dc1f77b 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -2018,7 +2018,11 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data
return error;
}
- down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ /*
+ * arg_lock protects concurent updates but we still need mmap_sem for
+ * read to exclude races with sys_brk.
+ */
+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
/*
* We don't validate if these members are pointing to
@@ -2032,6 +2036,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data
* to any problem in kernel itself
*/
+ spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock);
mm->start_code = prctl_map.start_code;
mm->end_code = prctl_map.end_code;
mm->start_data = prctl_map.start_data;
@@ -2043,6 +2048,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data
mm->arg_end = prctl_map.arg_end;
mm->env_start = prctl_map.env_start;
mm->env_end = prctl_map.env_end;
+ spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock);
/*
* Note this update of @saved_auxv is lockless thus
@@ -2055,7 +2061,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data
if (prctl_map.auxv_size)
memcpy(mm->saved_auxv, user_auxv, sizeof(user_auxv));
- up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
return 0;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE */
diff --git a/mm/init-mm.c b/mm/init-mm.c
index f94d5d15ebc0..f0179c9c04c2 100644
--- a/mm/init-mm.c
+++ b/mm/init-mm.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ struct mm_struct init_mm = {
.mm_count = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
.mmap_sem = __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(init_mm.mmap_sem),
.page_table_lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(init_mm.page_table_lock),
+ .arg_lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(init_mm.arg_lock),
.mmlist = LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_mm.mmlist),
.user_ns = &init_user_ns,
INIT_MM_CONTEXT(init_mm)