Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:32:17 -0300 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/gup: Assert that the mmap lock is held in __get_user_pages() |
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 06:20:01PM -0700, Jann Horn wrote: > After having cleaned up all GUP callers (except for the atomisp staging > driver, which currently gets mmap locking completely wrong [1]) to always > ensure that they hold the mmap lock when calling into GUP (unless the mm is > not yet globally visible), add an assertion to make sure it stays that way > going forward. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAG48ez3tZAb9JVhw4T5e-i=h2_DUZxfNRTDsagSRCVazNXx5qA@mail.gmail.com/ > > Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> > --- > mm/gup.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
I'm happy to see this, I have observed many cases of missing locking here.
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Thanks, Jason
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