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authorDavid Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>2014-08-08 14:25:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-08 15:57:31 -0700
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mm: allow drivers to prevent new writable mappings
This patch (of 6): The i_mmap_writable field counts existing writable mappings of an address_space. To allow drivers to prevent new writable mappings, make this counter signed and prevent new writable mappings if it is negative. This is modelled after i_writecount and DENYWRITE. This will be required by the shmem-sealing infrastructure to prevent any new writable mappings after the WRITE seal has been set. In case there exists a writable mapping, this operation will fail with EBUSY. Note that we rely on the fact that iff you already own a writable mapping, you can increase the counter without using the helpers. This is the same that we do for i_writecount. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Cc: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index fa9124322cd4..1380d8ace334 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
atomic_dec(&inode->i_writecount);
mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
if (tmp->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)
- mapping->i_mmap_writable++;
+ atomic_inc(&mapping->i_mmap_writable);
flush_dcache_mmap_lock(mapping);
/* insert tmp into the share list, just after mpnt */
if (unlikely(tmp->vm_flags & VM_NONLINEAR))