Properly take the mmap_sem before calling into the GUP code from get_dump_page(); and play nice, allowing the GUP code to drop the mmap_sem if it has to sleep. As Linus pointed out, we don't actually need the VMA because __get_user_pages() will flush the dcache for us if necessary. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/gup.c | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c index 9a7e83772f1fe..03f659ddd830a 100644 --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -1548,19 +1548,23 @@ static long __get_user_pages_locked(struct task_struct *tsk, * NULL wherever the ZERO_PAGE, or an anonymous pte_none, has been found - * allowing a hole to be left in the corefile to save diskspace. * - * Called without mmap_sem, but after all other threads have been killed. + * Called without mmap_sem (takes and releases the mmap_sem by itself). */ struct page *get_dump_page(unsigned long addr) { - struct vm_area_struct *vma; + struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; struct page *page; + int locked = 1; + int ret; - if (__get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr, 1, - FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_DUMP | FOLL_GET, &page, &vma, - NULL) < 1) + if (down_read_killable(&mm->mmap_sem)) return NULL; - flush_cache_page(vma, addr, page_to_pfn(page)); - return page; + ret = __get_user_pages_locked(current, mm, addr, 1, &page, NULL, + &locked, + FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_DUMP | FOLL_GET); + if (locked) + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + return (ret == 1) ? page : NULL; } #if defined(CONFIG_FS_DAX) || defined (CONFIG_CMA) -- 2.26.2.526.g744177e7f7-goog