The quilt patch titled Subject: proc: nommu: /proc/<pid>/maps: release mmap read lock has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was proc-nommu-proc-pid-maps-release-mmap-read-lock.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ben Wolsieffer <Ben.Wolsieffer@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: proc: nommu: /proc/<pid>/maps: release mmap read lock Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:30:20 -0400 The no-MMU implementation of /proc/<pid>/map doesn't normally release the mmap read lock, because it uses !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_vml) to determine whether to release the lock. Since _vml is NULL when the end of the mappings is reached, the lock is not released. Reading /proc/1/maps twice doesn't cause a hang because it only takes the read lock, which can be taken multiple times and therefore doesn't show any problem if the lock isn't released. Instead, you need to perform some operation that attempts to take the write lock after reading /proc/<pid>/maps. To actually reproduce the bug, compile the following code as 'proc_maps_bug': #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { void *buf; sleep(1); buf = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); puts("mmap returned"); return 0; } Then, run: ./proc_maps_bug &; cat /proc/$!/maps; fg Without this patch, mmap() will hang and the command will never complete. This code was incorrectly adapted from the MMU implementation, which at the time released the lock in m_next() before returning the last entry. The MMU implementation has diverged further from the no-MMU version since then, so this patch brings their locking and error handling into sync, fixing the bug and hopefully avoiding similar issues in the future. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230914163019.4050530-2-ben.wolsieffer@xxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 47fecca15c09 ("fs/proc/task_nommu.c: don't use priv->task->mm") Signed-off-by: Ben Wolsieffer <ben.wolsieffer@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/task_nommu.c | 27 +++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- a/fs/proc/task_nommu.c~proc-nommu-proc-pid-maps-release-mmap-read-lock +++ a/fs/proc/task_nommu.c @@ -192,11 +192,16 @@ static void *m_start(struct seq_file *m, return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH); mm = priv->mm; - if (!mm || !mmget_not_zero(mm)) + if (!mm || !mmget_not_zero(mm)) { + put_task_struct(priv->task); + priv->task = NULL; return NULL; + } if (mmap_read_lock_killable(mm)) { mmput(mm); + put_task_struct(priv->task); + priv->task = NULL; return ERR_PTR(-EINTR); } @@ -205,23 +210,21 @@ static void *m_start(struct seq_file *m, if (vma) return vma; - mmap_read_unlock(mm); - mmput(mm); return NULL; } -static void m_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *_vml) +static void m_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *v) { struct proc_maps_private *priv = m->private; + struct mm_struct *mm = priv->mm; - if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_vml)) { - mmap_read_unlock(priv->mm); - mmput(priv->mm); - } - if (priv->task) { - put_task_struct(priv->task); - priv->task = NULL; - } + if (!priv->task) + return; + + mmap_read_unlock(mm); + mmput(mm); + put_task_struct(priv->task); + priv->task = NULL; } static void *m_next(struct seq_file *m, void *_p, loff_t *pos) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from Ben.Wolsieffer@xxxxxxxxxxx are