On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:01:46PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> There is a race window between vmap_area free and show vmap_area information.
>
> A B
>
> remove_vm_area
> spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock);
> va->flags &= ~VM_VM_AREA;
> spin_unlock(&vmap_area_lock);
> spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock);
> if (va->flags & (VM_LAZY_FREE |
> VM_LAZY_FREEZING))
> return 0;
> if (!(va->flags & VM_VM_AREA)) {
> seq_printf(m,
> "0x%pK-0x%pK %7ld vm_map_ram\n",
> (void
> *)va->va_start, (void *)va->va_end,
> va->va_end -
> va->va_start);
> return 0;
> }
> free_unmap_vmap_area(va);
> flush_cache_vunmap
> free_unmap_vmap_area_noflush
> unmap_vmap_area
> free_vmap_area_noflush
> va->flags |= VM_LAZY_FREE
>
> The assumption is introduced by commit: d4033afd(mm, vmalloc: iterate
> vmap_area_list,
> instead of vmlist, in vmallocinfo()). This patch fix it by drop the
> assumption and
> keep not dump vm_map_ram allocation information as the logic before that
> commit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liw...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> mm/vmalloc.c | 7 -------
> 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index 5368b17..62b7932 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -2586,13 +2586,6 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
> if (va->flags & (VM_LAZY_FREE | VM_LAZY_FREEING))
> return 0;
>
> - if (!(va->flags & VM_VM_AREA)) {
> - seq_printf(m, "0x%pK-0x%pK %7ld vm_map_ram\n",
> - (void *)va->va_start, (void *)va->va_end,
> - va->va_end - va->va_start);
> - return 0;
> - }
> -
> v = va->vm;
>
> seq_printf(m, "0x%pK-0x%pK %7ld",
Hello, Wanpeng.
Did you test this patch?
I guess that, With this patch, if there are some vm_map areas,
null pointer deference would occurs, since va->vm may be null for it.
And with this patch, if this race really occur, null pointer deference
would occurs too, since va->vm is set to null in remove_vm_area().
I think that this is not a right fix for this possible race.
Thanks.
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