On 4/18/19 6:05 AM, Laurent Dufour wrote:
Le 18/04/2019 à 15:03, Michal Hocko a écrit :
Michal has posted the same patch few days ago http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417120347.15397-1-mkou...@suse.com

Oups, sorry for the noise, I missed it.

Yes, Michal already posted a similar patch. Anyway, thanks for catching this.


On Thu 18-04-19 14:58:27, Laurent Dufour wrote:
The commit 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct") introduce the spinlock arg_lock to protect
the arg_* and env_* field of the mm_struct structure.

While reading the code, I found that this new spinlock was not used in
get_cmdline() to protect access to these fields.

Fixing this even if there is no issue reported yet for this.

Fixes: 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct")
Cc: Yang Shi <yang....@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <lduf...@linux.ibm.com>
---
  mm/util.c | 4 ++--
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 05a464929b3e..789760c3028b 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -758,12 +758,12 @@ int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen)
      if (!mm->arg_end)
          goto out_mm;    /* Shh! No looking before we're done */
  -    down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+    spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock);
      arg_start = mm->arg_start;
      arg_end = mm->arg_end;
      env_start = mm->env_start;
      env_end = mm->env_end;
-    up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+    spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock);
        len = arg_end - arg_start;
  --
2.21.0


Reply via email to