From: Dima Zavin Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:26:14 +0000 (+0100) Subject: ARM: 7409/1: Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held X-Git-Tag: v3.2.19~44 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6236459be5996e9417020f03ccf7019eccbf1449;p=profile%2Fivi%2Fkernel-adaptation-intel-automotive.git ARM: 7409/1: Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held commit 435a7ef52db7d86e67a009b36cac1457f8972391 upstream. We can't be holding the mmap_sem while calling flush_cache_user_range because the flush can fault. If we fault on a user address, the page fault handler will try to take mmap_sem again. Since both places acquire the read lock, most of the time it succeeds. However, if another thread tries to acquire the write lock on the mmap_sem (e.g. mmap) in between the call to flush_cache_user_range and the fault, the down_read in do_page_fault will deadlock. [will: removed drop of vma parameter as already queued by rmk (7365/1)] Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c index f363ad9..160cb16 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c @@ -488,7 +488,9 @@ do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int flags) if (end > vma->vm_end) end = vma->vm_end; + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); flush_cache_user_range(start, end); + return; } up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); }