exec: Run sync_mm_rss before taking exec_update_mutex
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:33:39 +0000 (16:33 -0500)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Mon, 11 May 2020 17:08:48 +0000 (12:08 -0500)
Like exec_mm_release sync_mm_rss is about flushing out the state of
the old_mm, which does not need to happen under exec_update_mutex.

Make this explicit by moving sync_mm_rss outside of exec_update_mutex.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/875zd66za3.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
fs/exec.c

index 8210624..ecee0eb 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1051,13 +1051,14 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
        tsk = current;
        old_mm = current->mm;
        exec_mm_release(tsk, old_mm);
+       if (old_mm)
+               sync_mm_rss(old_mm);
 
        ret = mutex_lock_killable(&tsk->signal->exec_update_mutex);
        if (ret)
                return ret;
 
        if (old_mm) {
-               sync_mm_rss(old_mm);
                /*
                 * Make sure that if there is a core dump in progress
                 * for the old mm, we get out and die instead of going