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Commit bc81426f authored by Michal Koutný's avatar Michal Koutný Committed by Linus Torvalds
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prctl_set_mm: downgrade mmap_sem to read lock

The commit a3b609ef ("proc read mm's {arg,env}_{start,end} with mmap
semaphore taken.") added synchronization of reading argument/environment
boundaries under mmap_sem.  Later commit 88aa7cc6 ("mm: introduce
arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct") avoided
the coarse use of mmap_sem in similar situations.  But there still
remained two places that (mis)use mmap_sem.

get_cmdline should also use arg_lock instead of mmap_sem when it reads the
boundaries.

The second place that should use arg_lock is in prctl_set_mm.  By
protecting the boundaries fields with the arg_lock, we can downgrade
mmap_sem to reader lock (analogous to what we already do in
prctl_set_mm_map).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190502125203.24014-3-mkoutny@suse.com
Fixes: 88aa7cc6

 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLaurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
Co-developed-by: default avatarLaurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 11bbd8b4
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