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authorOleg Nesterov2012-01-31 17:15:11 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds2012-02-01 14:39:01 -0800
commit6d08f2c7139790c268820a2e590795cb8333181a (patch)
tree78b2773b8ca6949f9561af641908e4086ba193cb /lib/mpi
parent572d34b946bae070debd42db1143034d9687e13f (diff)
proc: make sure mem_open() doesn't pin the target's memory
Once /proc/pid/mem is opened, the memory can't be released until mem_release() even if its owner exits. Change mem_open() to do atomic_inc(mm_count) + mmput(), this only pins mm_struct. Change mem_rw() to do atomic_inc_not_zero(mm_count) before access_remote_vm(), this verifies that this mm is still alive. I am not sure what should mem_rw() return if atomic_inc_not_zero() fails. With this patch it returns zero to match the "mm == NULL" case, may be it should return -EINVAL like it did before e268337d. Perhaps it makes sense to add the additional fatal_signal_pending() check into the main loop, to ensure we do not hold this memory if the target task was oom-killed. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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