When the driver disassociate user context, it changes the vma to
anonymous by setting the vm_ops to null and zap the vma ptes.
In order to avoid race in the kernel, we need to take write lock
before we change the vma entries.
Fixes:
7c2344c3bbf97 ('IB/mlx5: Implements disassociate_ucontext API')
Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
/* need to protect from a race on closing the vma as part of
* mlx5_ib_vma_close.
*/
- down_read(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
+ down_write(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
list_for_each_entry_safe(vma_private, n, &context->vma_private_list,
list) {
vma = vma_private->vma;
list_del(&vma_private->list);
kfree(vma_private);
}
- up_read(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
+ up_write(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
mmput(owning_mm);
put_task_struct(owning_process);
}