From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
To: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>, gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, arunks@codeaurora.org, brgl@bgdev.pl,
geert+renesas@glider.be, ldufour@linux.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
mguzik@redhat.com, mhocko@kernel.org, rppt@linux.ibm.com,
vbabka@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] prctl_set_mm: downgrade mmap_sem to read lock
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 11:55:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <af8f7958-06aa-7134-c750-b7a994368e89@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190430081844.22597-4-mkoutny@suse.com>
On 30.04.2019 11:18, Michal Koutný wrote:
> Since commit 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect
> arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct") we use arg_lock for
> boundaries modifications. Synchronize prctl_set_mm with this lock and
> keep mmap_sem for reading only (analogous to what we already do in
> prctl_set_mm_map).
>
> v2: call find_vma without arg_lock held
>
> CC: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
> CC: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
> ---
> kernel/sys.c | 10 ++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
> index e1acb444d7b0..641fda756575 100644
> --- a/kernel/sys.c
> +++ b/kernel/sys.c
> @@ -2123,9 +2123,14 @@ static int prctl_set_mm(int opt, unsigned long addr,
>
> error = -EINVAL;
>
> - down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + /*
> + * arg_lock protects concurent updates of arg boundaries, we need mmap_sem for
> + * a) concurrent sys_brk, b) finding VMA for addr validation.
> + */
> + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
>
> + spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock);
> prctl_map.start_code = mm->start_code;
> prctl_map.end_code = mm->end_code;
> prctl_map.start_data = mm->start_data;
> @@ -2213,7 +2218,8 @@ static int prctl_set_mm(int opt, unsigned long addr,
>
> error = 0;
> out:
> - up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock);
> + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> return error;
Hm, shouldn't spin_lock()/spin_unlock() pair go as a fixup to existing code
in a separate patch?
Without them, the existing code has a problem at least in get_mm_cmdline().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-30 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-17 12:03 [PATCH] mm: get_cmdline use arg_lock instead of mmap_sem Michal Koutný
2019-04-17 13:41 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-17 14:41 ` Michal Koutný
2019-04-17 14:55 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-18 13:50 ` [PATCH] prctl_set_mm: downgrade mmap_sem to read lock Michal Koutný
2019-04-18 14:09 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-04-18 14:15 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-18 14:27 ` Laurent Dufour
2019-04-18 18:23 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-04-30 8:18 ` [PATCH 0/3] Reduce mmap_sem usage for args manipulation Michal Koutný
2019-04-30 8:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: get_cmdline use arg_lock instead of mmap_sem Michal Koutný
2019-04-30 9:09 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-04-30 9:38 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-04-30 9:53 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-04-30 10:45 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-04-30 10:56 ` Michal Koutný
2019-04-30 13:24 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-04-30 8:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] prctl_set_mm: Refactor checks from validate_prctl_map Michal Koutný
2019-04-30 9:27 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-04-30 8:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] prctl_set_mm: downgrade mmap_sem to read lock Michal Koutný
2019-04-30 8:55 ` Kirill Tkhai [this message]
2019-04-30 9:08 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-04-30 9:11 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-02 12:52 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] Reduce mmap_sem usage for args manipulation Michal Koutný
2019-05-02 12:52 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] prctl_set_mm: Refactor checks from validate_prctl_map Michal Koutný
2019-05-02 20:57 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-05-02 12:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] prctl_set_mm: downgrade mmap_sem to read lock Michal Koutný
2019-05-02 20:57 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-05-06 9:28 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-07 17:42 ` Michal Hocko
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