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| author | Dima Zavin <dima@android.com> | 2012-04-30 10:26:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-06-01 15:13:01 +0800 |
| commit | ab55458eb0cc7f0f23e38ed41828e9b5a5372134 (patch) | |
| tree | 366058c2ab0486a3a505f0df35105ad62801e551 /arch | |
| parent | 866cd76c93e668389a8edb4eece7b900ac386b5e (diff) | |
ARM: 7409/1: Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held
commit 435a7ef52db7d86e67a009b36cac1457f8972391 upstream.
We can't be holding the mmap_sem while calling flush_cache_user_range
because the flush can fault. If we fault on a user address, the
page fault handler will try to take mmap_sem again. Since both places
acquire the read lock, most of the time it succeeds. However, if another
thread tries to acquire the write lock on the mmap_sem (e.g. mmap) in
between the call to flush_cache_user_range and the fault, the down_read
in do_page_fault will deadlock.
[will: removed drop of vma parameter as already queued by rmk (7365/1)]
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c index c886033dcbd..56b2715355b 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c @@ -451,7 +451,9 @@ do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int flags) if (end > vma->vm_end) end = vma->vm_end; + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); flush_cache_user_range(start, end); + return; } up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); } |