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author | Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-03-22 00:34:08 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-22 01:54:58 +0100 |
commit | a05b0855fd15504972dba2358e5faa172a1e50ba (patch) | |
tree | f4cba4ef12d888ec472714f67ef7bcec318a5191 /fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | |
parent | bootmem/sparsemem: remove limit constraint in alloc_bootmem_section (diff) | |
download | linux-a05b0855fd15504972dba2358e5faa172a1e50ba.tar.xz linux-a05b0855fd15504972dba2358e5faa172a1e50ba.zip |
hugetlbfs: avoid taking i_mutex from hugetlbfs_read()
Taking i_mutex in hugetlbfs_read() can result in deadlock with mmap as
explained below
Thread A:
read() on hugetlbfs
hugetlbfs_read() called
i_mutex grabbed
hugetlbfs_read_actor() called
__copy_to_user() called
page fault is triggered
Thread B, sharing address space with A:
mmap() the same file
->mmap_sem is grabbed on task_B->mm->mmap_sem
hugetlbfs_file_mmap() is called
attempt to grab ->i_mutex and block waiting for A to give it up
Thread A:
pagefault handled blocked on attempt to grab task_A->mm->mmap_sem,
which happens to be the same thing as task_B->mm->mmap_sem. Block waiting
for B to give it up.
AFAIU the i_mutex locking was added to hugetlbfs_read() as per
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.2/3066.html to take
care of the race between truncate and read. This patch fixes this by
looking at page->mapping under lock_page() (find_lock_page()) to ensure
that the inode didn't get truncated in the range during a parallel read.
Ideally we can extend the patch to make sure we don't increase i_size in
mmap. But that will break userspace, because applications will now have
to use truncate(2) to increase i_size in hugetlbfs.
Based on the original patch from Hillf Danton.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [everything after 2007 :)]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c index b7bc7868c7b5..19654cfe780b 100644 --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c @@ -245,17 +245,10 @@ static ssize_t hugetlbfs_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, loff_t isize; ssize_t retval = 0; - mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); - /* validate length */ if (len == 0) goto out; - isize = i_size_read(inode); - if (!isize) - goto out; - - end_index = (isize - 1) >> huge_page_shift(h); for (;;) { struct page *page; unsigned long nr, ret; @@ -263,18 +256,21 @@ static ssize_t hugetlbfs_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, /* nr is the maximum number of bytes to copy from this page */ nr = huge_page_size(h); + isize = i_size_read(inode); + if (!isize) + goto out; + end_index = (isize - 1) >> huge_page_shift(h); if (index >= end_index) { if (index > end_index) goto out; nr = ((isize - 1) & ~huge_page_mask(h)) + 1; - if (nr <= offset) { + if (nr <= offset) goto out; - } } nr = nr - offset; /* Find the page */ - page = find_get_page(mapping, index); + page = find_lock_page(mapping, index); if (unlikely(page == NULL)) { /* * We have a HOLE, zero out the user-buffer for the @@ -286,17 +282,18 @@ static ssize_t hugetlbfs_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, else ra = 0; } else { + unlock_page(page); + /* * We have the page, copy it to user space buffer. */ ra = hugetlbfs_read_actor(page, offset, buf, len, nr); ret = ra; + page_cache_release(page); } if (ra < 0) { if (retval == 0) retval = ra; - if (page) - page_cache_release(page); goto out; } @@ -306,16 +303,12 @@ static ssize_t hugetlbfs_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, index += offset >> huge_page_shift(h); offset &= ~huge_page_mask(h); - if (page) - page_cache_release(page); - /* short read or no more work */ if ((ret != nr) || (len == 0)) break; } out: *ppos = ((loff_t)index << huge_page_shift(h)) + offset; - mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); return retval; } |