The commit 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct") introduce the spinlock arg_lock to protect the arg_* and env_* field of the mm_struct structure. While reading the code, I found that this new spinlock was not used in get_cmdline() to protect access to these fields. Fixing this even if there is no issue reported yet for this. Fixes: 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct") Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/util.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 05a464929b3e..789760c3028b 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -758,12 +758,12 @@ int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen) if (!mm->arg_end) goto out_mm; /* Shh! No looking before we're done */ - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock); arg_start = mm->arg_start; arg_end = mm->arg_end; env_start = mm->env_start; env_end = mm->env_end; - up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock); len = arg_end - arg_start; -- 2.21.0