linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: Release a semaphore in 'get_vaddr

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Message-Id: <20171209070941.31828-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Date:   Sat,  9 Dec 2017 08:09:41 +0100
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     dan.j.williams@...el.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        borntraeger@...ibm.com, mhocko@...e.com, dsterba@...e.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: Release a semaphore in 'get_vaddr_frames()'

A semaphore is acquired before this check, so we must release it before
leaving.

Fixes: b7f0554a56f2 ("mm: fail get_vaddr_frames() for filesystem-dax mappings")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
-- Untested --

The wording of the commit entry and log description could be improved
but I didn't find something better.
---
 mm/frame_vector.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/frame_vector.c b/mm/frame_vector.c
index 297c7238f7d4..e0c5e659fa82 100644
--- a/mm/frame_vector.c
+++ b/mm/frame_vector.c
@@ -62,8 +62,10 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
 	 * get_user_pages_longterm() and disallow it for filesystem-dax
 	 * mappings.
 	 */
-	if (vma_is_fsdax(vma))
+	if (vma_is_fsdax(vma)) {
+		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	}
 
 	if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP))) {
 		vec->got_ref = true;
-- 
2.14.1