From 90ed52ebe48181d3c5427b3bd1d24f659e7575ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:20:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] holepunch: fix mmap_sem i_mutex deadlock sys_madvise has down_write of mmap_sem, then madvise_remove calls vmtruncate_range which takes i_mutex and i_alloc_sem: no, we can easily devise deadlocks from that ordering. madvise_remove drop mmap_sem while calling vmtruncate_range: luckily, since madvise_remove doesn't split or merge vmas, it's easy to handle this case with a NULL prev, without restructuring sys_madvise. (Though sad to retake mmap_sem when it's unlikely to be needed, and certainly down_read is sufficient for MADV_REMOVE, unlike the other madvices.) Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/madvise.c | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 77916e9fc52..603c5257ed6 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -159,9 +159,10 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { struct address_space *mapping; - loff_t offset, endoff; + loff_t offset, endoff; + int error; - *prev = vma; + *prev = NULL; /* tell sys_madvise we drop mmap_sem */ if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_NONLINEAR|VM_HUGETLB)) return -EINVAL; @@ -180,7 +181,12 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + ((loff_t)vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT); endoff = (loff_t)(end - vma->vm_start - 1) + ((loff_t)vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT); - return vmtruncate_range(mapping->host, offset, endoff); + + /* vmtruncate_range needs to take i_mutex and i_alloc_sem */ + up_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); + error = vmtruncate_range(mapping->host, offset, endoff); + down_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); + return error; } static long @@ -315,12 +321,15 @@ asmlinkage long sys_madvise(unsigned long start, size_t len_in, int behavior) if (error) goto out; start = tmp; - if (start < prev->vm_end) + if (prev && start < prev->vm_end) start = prev->vm_end; error = unmapped_error; if (start >= end) goto out; - vma = prev->vm_next; + if (prev) + vma = prev->vm_next; + else /* madvise_remove dropped mmap_sem */ + vma = find_vma(current->mm, start); } out: up_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); -- 2.20.1