proc: put check_mem_permission after __get_free_page in mem_write
authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Thu, 26 May 2011 23:25:52 +0000 (16:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 27 May 2011 00:12:37 +0000 (17:12 -0700)
It whould be better if put check_mem_permission after __get_free_page in
mem_write, to be same as function mem_read.

Hugh Dickins explained the reason.

    check_mem_permission gets a reference to the mm.  If we __get_free_page
    after check_mem_permission, imagine what happens if the system is out
    of memory, and the mm we're looking at is selected for killing by the
    OOM killer: while we wait in __get_free_page for more memory, no memory
    is freed from the selected mm because it cannot reach exit_mmap while
    we hold that reference.

Reported-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/base.c

index 0c2c50c..4ede550 100644 (file)
@@ -894,20 +894,20 @@ static ssize_t mem_write(struct file * file, const char __user *buf,
        if (!task)
                goto out_no_task;
 
+       copied = -ENOMEM;
+       page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY);
+       if (!page)
+               goto out_task;
+
        mm = check_mem_permission(task);
        copied = PTR_ERR(mm);
        if (IS_ERR(mm))
-               goto out_task;
+               goto out_free;
 
        copied = -EIO;
        if (file->private_data != (void *)((long)current->self_exec_id))
                goto out_mm;
 
-       copied = -ENOMEM;
-       page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY);
-       if (!page)
-               goto out_mm;
-
        copied = 0;
        while (count > 0) {
                int this_len, retval;
@@ -929,9 +929,11 @@ static ssize_t mem_write(struct file * file, const char __user *buf,
                count -= retval;                        
        }
        *ppos = dst;
-       free_page((unsigned long) page);
+
 out_mm:
        mmput(mm);
+out_free:
+       free_page((unsigned long) page);
 out_task:
        put_task_struct(task);
 out_no_task: