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[v4,5/5] mm/gup: Take mmap_lock in get_dump_page()

Message ID 20200826151448.3404695-6-jannh@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Fix ELF / FDPIC ELF core dumping, and use mmap_lock properly in there | expand

Commit Message

Jann Horn Aug. 26, 2020, 3:14 p.m. UTC 
Properly take the mmap_lock before calling into the GUP code from
get_dump_page(); and play nice, allowing the GUP code to drop the mmap_lock
if it has to sleep.

As Linus pointed out, we don't actually need the VMA because
__get_user_pages() will flush the dcache for us if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
---
 mm/gup.c | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 92519e5a44b3..bd0f7311c5c6 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -1552,19 +1552,23 @@  static long __get_user_pages_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
  * NULL wherever the ZERO_PAGE, or an anonymous pte_none, has been found -
  * allowing a hole to be left in the corefile to save diskspace.
  *
- * Called without mmap_lock, but after all other threads have been killed.
+ * Called without mmap_lock (takes and releases the mmap_lock by itself).
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_ELF_CORE
 struct page *get_dump_page(unsigned long addr)
 {
-	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
 	struct page *page;
+	int locked = 1;
+	int ret;
 
-	if (__get_user_pages_locked(current->mm, addr, 1, &page, &vma, NULL,
-				    FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_DUMP | FOLL_GET) < 1)
+	if (mmap_read_lock_killable(mm))
 		return NULL;
-	flush_cache_page(vma, addr, page_to_pfn(page));
-	return page;
+	ret = __get_user_pages_locked(mm, addr, 1, &page, NULL, &locked,
+				      FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_DUMP | FOLL_GET);
+	if (locked)
+		mmap_read_unlock(mm);
+	return (ret == 1) ? page : NULL;
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_ELF_CORE */