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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
	Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>,
	<linux-um@lists.infradead.org>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mmap locking API: Order lock of nascent mm outside lock of live mm
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 09:52:16 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201005125216.GV816047@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG48ez0LuG9nULaBF_3ofE--u=TBgbxVdACthpb8wtJhADO02w@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 03:30:43AM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> But another place where lockdep asserts should be added is find_vma();
> there are currently several architectures that sometimes improperly
> call that with no lock held:

Yes, I've seen several cases of this mis-use in drivers too

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-05 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-02  1:23 [PATCH 0/2] Broad write-locking of nascent mm in execve Jann Horn
2020-10-02  1:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] mmap locking API: Order lock of nascent mm outside lock of live mm Jann Horn
2020-10-02  9:17   ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-10-02 11:39     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-02 16:33     ` Jann Horn
2020-10-03 21:30       ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-10-05  1:30         ` Jann Horn
2020-10-05 12:52           ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2020-10-02  1:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] exec: Broadly lock nascent mm until setup_arg_pages() Jann Horn

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