This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Revert "binder_alloc: add missing mmap_lock calls when using the VMA" to the 6.3-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: revert-binder_alloc-add-missing-mmap_lock-calls-when-using-the-vma.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b15655b12ddca7ade09807f790bafb6fab61b50a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 May 2023 20:12:17 +0000 Subject: Revert "binder_alloc: add missing mmap_lock calls when using the VMA" From: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b15655b12ddca7ade09807f790bafb6fab61b50a upstream. This reverts commit 44e602b4e52f70f04620bbbf4fe46ecb40170bde. This caused a performance regression particularly when pages are getting reclaimed. We don't need to acquire the mmap_lock to determine when the binder buffer has been fully initialized. A subsequent patch will bring back the lockless approach for this. [cmllamas: resolved trivial conflicts with renaming of alloc->mm] Fixes: 44e602b4e52f ("binder_alloc: add missing mmap_lock calls when using the VMA") Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230502201220.1756319-1-cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 31 ++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c +++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c @@ -380,15 +380,12 @@ static struct binder_buffer *binder_allo size_t size, data_offsets_size; int ret; - mmap_read_lock(alloc->mm); if (!binder_alloc_get_vma(alloc)) { - mmap_read_unlock(alloc->mm); binder_alloc_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_USER_ERROR, "%d: binder_alloc_buf, no vma\n", alloc->pid); return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH); } - mmap_read_unlock(alloc->mm); data_offsets_size = ALIGN(data_size, sizeof(void *)) + ALIGN(offsets_size, sizeof(void *)); @@ -916,25 +913,17 @@ void binder_alloc_print_pages(struct seq * Make sure the binder_alloc is fully initialized, otherwise we might * read inconsistent state. */ - - mmap_read_lock(alloc->mm); - if (binder_alloc_get_vma(alloc) == NULL) { - mmap_read_unlock(alloc->mm); - goto uninitialized; - } - - mmap_read_unlock(alloc->mm); - for (i = 0; i < alloc->buffer_size / PAGE_SIZE; i++) { - page = &alloc->pages[i]; - if (!page->page_ptr) - free++; - else if (list_empty(&page->lru)) - active++; - else - lru++; + if (binder_alloc_get_vma(alloc) != NULL) { + for (i = 0; i < alloc->buffer_size / PAGE_SIZE; i++) { + page = &alloc->pages[i]; + if (!page->page_ptr) + free++; + else if (list_empty(&page->lru)) + active++; + else + lru++; + } } - -uninitialized: mutex_unlock(&alloc->mutex); seq_printf(m, " pages: %d:%d:%d\n", active, lru, free); seq_printf(m, " pages high watermark: %zu\n", alloc->pages_high); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.3/revert-android-binder-stop-saving-a-pointer-to-the-vma.patch queue-6.3/binder-fix-uaf-of-alloc-vma-in-race-with-munmap.patch queue-6.3/binder-fix-uaf-caused-by-faulty-buffer-cleanup.patch queue-6.3/revert-binder_alloc-add-missing-mmap_lock-calls-when-using-the-vma.patch queue-6.3/binder-add-lockless-binder_alloc_-set-get-_vma.patch