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>
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 917f338..f3c2e40 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -235,9 +235,8 @@
struct mm_struct *mm_for_maps(struct task_struct *task)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(task);
- if (!mm)
- return NULL;
- if (mm != current->mm) {
+
+ if (mm && mm != current->mm) {
/*
* task->mm can be changed before security check,
* in that case we must notice the change after.
@@ -245,10 +244,9 @@
if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ) ||
mm != task->mm) {
mmput(mm);
- return NULL;
+ mm = NULL;
}
}
- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
return mm;
}