On Fri Oct 18, 2019 at 10:56 PM Jann Horn wrote:
> binder_alloc_print_pages() iterates over
> alloc->pages[0..alloc->buffer_size-1] under alloc->mutex.
> binder_alloc_mmap_handler() writes alloc->pages and alloc->buffer_size
> without holding that lock, and even writes them before the last bailout
> point.
>
> Unfortunately we can't take the alloc->mutex in the ->mmap() handler
> because mmap_sem can be taken while alloc->mutex is held.
> So instead, we have to locklessly check whether the binder_alloc has been
> fully initialized with binder_alloc_get_vma(), like in
> binder_alloc_new_buf_locked().
>
> Fixes: 8ef4665aa129 ("android: binder: Add page usage in binder stats")
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <ja...@google.com>
Ok, I see a smp_wmb() in binder_alloc_set_vma() which is called in
binder_alloc_mmap_handler() paired with a smp_rmb() in
binder_alloc_get_vma(). That makes sense to me.
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brau...@ubuntu.com>
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