linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/8] powerpc/mm: Fix possible race on task->mm

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Date:	Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:50:22 +0400
From:	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/8] powerpc/mm: Fix possible race on task->mm

Checking for task->mm is dangerous as ->mm might disappear (exit_mm()
assigns NULL under task_lock(), so tasklist lock is not enough).

We can't use get_task_mm()/mmput() pair as mmput() might sleep,
so let's take the task lock while we care about its mm.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c
index 5b63bd3..13ec484 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
@@ -360,8 +361,10 @@ static int __cpuinit mmu_context_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
 		/* We also clear the cpu_vm_mask bits of CPUs going away */
 		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 		for_each_process(p) {
+			task_lock(p);
 			if (p->mm)
 				cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(p->mm));
+			task_unlock(p);
 		}
 		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 	break;
-- 
1.7.7.6

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