Properly take the mmap_lock before calling into the GUP code from
get_dump_page(); and play nice, allowing the GUP code to drop the mmap_lock
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 | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 92519e5a44b3..bd0f7311c5c6 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -1552,19 +1552,23 @@ static long __get_user_pages_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
* 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_lock, but after all other threads have been killed.
+ * Called without mmap_lock (takes and releases the mmap_lock by itself).
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_ELF_CORE
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_locked(current->mm, addr, 1, &page, &vma, NULL,
- FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_DUMP | FOLL_GET) < 1)
+ if (mmap_read_lock_killable(mm))
return NULL;
- flush_cache_page(vma, addr, page_to_pfn(page));
- return page;
+ ret = __get_user_pages_locked(mm, addr, 1, &page, NULL, &locked,
+ FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_DUMP | FOLL_GET);
+ if (locked)
+ mmap_read_unlock(mm);
+ return (ret == 1) ? page : NULL;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_ELF_CORE */
--
2.28.0.297.g1956fa8f8d-goog
