proc read mm's {arg,env}_{start,end} with mmap semaphore taken.
Only functions doing more than one read are modified. Consumeres
happened to deal with possibly changing data, but it does not seem like
a good thing to rely on.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 6d1f920..c108a65 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -476,17 +476,25 @@
int res = 0;
unsigned int len;
struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(task);
+ unsigned long arg_start, arg_end, env_start, env_end;
if (!mm)
goto out;
if (!mm->arg_end)
goto out_mm; /* Shh! No looking before we're done */
- len = mm->arg_end - mm->arg_start;
+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ arg_start = mm->arg_start;
+ arg_end = mm->arg_end;
+ env_start = mm->env_start;
+ env_end = mm->env_end;
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+
+ len = arg_end - arg_start;
if (len > buflen)
len = buflen;
- res = access_process_vm(task, mm->arg_start, buffer, len, 0);
+ res = access_process_vm(task, arg_start, buffer, len, 0);
/*
* If the nul at the end of args has been overwritten, then
@@ -497,10 +505,10 @@
if (len < res) {
res = len;
} else {
- len = mm->env_end - mm->env_start;
+ len = env_end - env_start;
if (len > buflen - res)
len = buflen - res;
- res += access_process_vm(task, mm->env_start,
+ res += access_process_vm(task, env_start,
buffer+res, len, 0);
res = strnlen(buffer, res);
}