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| author | Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> | 2013-04-04 11:35:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-04-04 11:46:28 -0700 |
| commit | b6a9b7f6b1f21735a7456d534dc0e68e61359d2c (patch) | |
| tree | c38c6f7cc1d211f72836d383e6b8eb06b8ae8086 /mm/nommu.c | |
| parent | 22d1e6f4c509eea39fd9232a01697e1cf08ff8a8 (diff) | |
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mm: prevent mmap_cache race in find_vma()
find_vma() can be called by multiple threads with read lock
held on mm->mmap_sem and any of them can update mm->mmap_cache.
Prevent compiler from re-fetching mm->mmap_cache, because other
readers could update it in the meantime:
thread 1 thread 2
|
find_vma() | find_vma()
struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL; |
vma = mm->mmap_cache; |
if (!(vma && vma->vm_end > addr |
&& vma->vm_start <= addr)) { |
| mm->mmap_cache = vma;
return vma; |
^^ compiler may optimize this |
local variable out and re-read |
mm->mmap_cache |
This issue can be reproduced with gcc-4.8.0-1 on s390x by running
mallocstress testcase from LTP, which triggers:
kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1088!
Call Trace:
([<000003d100c57000>] 0x3d100c57000)
[<000000000023a1c0>] do_wp_page+0x2fc/0xa88
[<000000000023baae>] handle_pte_fault+0x41a/0xac8
[<000000000023d832>] handle_mm_fault+0x17a/0x268
[<000000000060507a>] do_protection_exception+0x1e2/0x394
[<0000000000603a04>] pgm_check_handler+0x138/0x13c
[<000003fffcf1f07a>] 0x3fffcf1f07a
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[<000000000024755e>] page_add_new_anon_rmap+0xc2/0x168
Thanks to Jakub Jelinek for his insight on gcc and helping to
track this down.
Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/nommu.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/nommu.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c index e19328087534..2f3ea749c318 100644 --- a/mm/nommu.c +++ b/mm/nommu.c @@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *find_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) struct vm_area_struct *vma; /* check the cache first */ - vma = mm->mmap_cache; + vma = ACCESS_ONCE(mm->mmap_cache); if (vma && vma->vm_start <= addr && vma->vm_end > addr) return vma; |