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ARM: 7409/1: Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held
authorDima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:26:14 +0000 (10:26 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 1 Jun 2012 07:13:01 +0000 (15:13 +0800)
commitab55458eb0cc7f0f23e38ed41828e9b5a5372134
tree366058c2ab0486a3a505f0df35105ad62801e551
parent866cd76c93e668389a8edb4eece7b900ac386b5e
ARM: 7409/1: Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held

commit 435a7ef52db7d86e67a009b36cac1457f8972391 upstream.

We can't be holding the mmap_sem while calling flush_cache_user_range
because the flush can fault. If we fault on a user address, the
page fault handler will try to take mmap_sem again. Since both places
acquire the read lock, most of the time it succeeds. However, if another
thread tries to acquire the write lock on the mmap_sem (e.g. mmap) in
between the call to flush_cache_user_range and the fault, the down_read
in do_page_fault will deadlock.

[will: removed drop of vma parameter as already queued by rmk (7365/1)]

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c