From: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 05:44:47 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: um: fix possible race on task->mm
X-Git-Tag: next-20120503~2^2~44
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=27bc05b7bbee9c7f58a0e5fad5a17b6e670b08b5;p=karo-tx-linux.git

um: fix possible race on task->mm

Checking for task->mm is dangerous as ->mm might disappear (exit_mm()
assigns NULL under task_lock(), so tasklist lock is not enough).

We can't use get_task_mm()/mmput() pair as mmput() might sleep, so let's
take the task lock while we care about its mm.

Note that we should also use find_lock_task_mm() to check all process'
threads for a valid mm, but for uml we'll do it in a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/reboot.c b/arch/um/kernel/reboot.c
index 66d754c46e7b..1411f4e79f9a 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/reboot.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -25,10 +25,13 @@ static void kill_off_processes(void)
 
 		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 		for_each_process(p) {
-			if (p->mm == NULL)
+			task_lock(p);
+			if (!p->mm) {
+				task_unlock(p);
 				continue;
-
+			}
 			pid = p->mm->context.id.u.pid;
+			task_unlock(p);
 			os_kill_ptraced_process(pid, 1);
 		}
 		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);