[PATCH] futex: Take mmap_sem for get_user_pages infault_in_user_writeable

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Dec 08 2009 - 07:19:59 EST


futex: Take mmap_sem for get_user_pages in fault_in_user_writeable

gup() requires mmap_sem, so take it before running it. The
recent fault_in_user_writeable() didn't do that.

I didn't find a good futex test case, so untested.

Likely a stable candidate.

Cc: npiggin@xxxxxxx
Cc: tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: dvhltc@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
kernel/futex.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.32-ak/kernel/futex.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.32-ak.orig/kernel/futex.c
+++ linux-2.6.32-ak/kernel/futex.c
@@ -304,8 +304,13 @@ void put_futex_key(int fshared, union fu
*/
static int fault_in_user_writeable(u32 __user *uaddr)
{
- int ret = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, (unsigned long)uaddr,
+ int ret;
+ struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
+
+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ ret = get_user_pages(current, mm, (unsigned long)uaddr,
1, 1, 0, NULL, NULL);
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
return ret < 0 ? ret : 0;
}

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