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| author |   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2009-07-10 03:27:38 +0200 |
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| committer |   James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-08-10 20:48:32 +1000 |
| commit | 00f89d218523b9bf6b522349c039d5ac80aa536d (patch) | |
| tree | cde7a8bde2798e4fb3ae28756f6cedd4db9191cc /fs/proc/task_nommu.c | |
| parent | mm_for_maps: simplify, use ptrace_may_access() (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-00f89d218523b9bf6b522349c039d5ac80aa536d.tar.xz linux-dev-00f89d218523b9bf6b522349c039d5ac80aa536d.zip | |
mm_for_maps: shift down_read(mmap_sem) to the caller
mm_for_maps() takes ->mmap_sem after security checks, this looks
strange and obfuscates the locking rules. Move this lock to its
single caller, m_start().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/task_nommu.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/task_nommu.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_nommu.c b/fs/proc/task_nommu.c index 64a72e2e7650..8f5c05d3dbd3 100644 --- a/fs/proc/task_nommu.c +++ b/fs/proc/task_nommu.c @@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ static void *m_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos) priv->task = NULL; return NULL; } + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); /* start from the Nth VMA */ for (p = rb_first(&mm->mm_rb); p; p = rb_next(p)) |