On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 09:39:00AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> I just noticed this here in the patch because everyone else does not do
> this. But looking at the mmap_region() code in mmap.c we seem to indeed
> have this problem for the error path:
>
> unmap_and_free_vma:
> vma->vm_file = NULL;
> fput(file);
>
> Note that the success path does things correctly (a bit above):
>
> file = vma->vm_file;
> out:
>
> So it indeed looks like dma-buf is the only one that does this fully
> correctly. So maybe we should do a follow-up patch to change the
> mmap_region exit code to pick up whatever vma->vm_file was set instead,
> and fput that?
Given that this new vma_set_file() should be the only way to
manipulate vm_file from the mmap op, I think this reflects a bug in
mm/mmap.c.. Should be:
unmap_and_free_vma:
fput(vma->vm_file);
vma->vm_file = NULL;
Then everything works the way you'd expect without tricky error
handling
Jason
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