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SubjectRe: [PATCH] proc: put check_mem_permission before __get_free_page in mem_read
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Hi High,

> On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, bookjovi@gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
> >
> > It should be better if put check_mem_permission before __get_free_page
> > in mem_read, to be same as function mem_write.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
>
> Sorry to be contrary, but I disagree with this. I'm all for consistency,
> but is there a particular reason why you think the mem_write ordering is
> right and mem_read wrong?
>
> My reason for preferring the current mem_read ordering is this:
>
> 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.

Right.

sorry for that. I missed this point.


> (I may be overstating the case: a little memory may be freed from the
> exiting task's stack, and kswapd should still be able to pick some pages
> off the mm. But nonetheless, we would do better to let this mm go.)
>
> No doubt there are plenty of other places in /proc which try to
> allocate memory after taking a reference on an mm; but I think
> we should be working to eliminate those rather than add to them.

then, Should we change mem_write instead?


From 74f827ce74e1c4f846905e940edfa5f639b5a2ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:57:02 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] proc: put check_mem_permission after __get_free_page in mem_write

It should 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>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
---
fs/proc/base.c | 16 +++++++++-------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 4deef2e..e93be6e 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -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:
--
1.7.3.1




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