tree 78b2773b8ca6949f9561af641908e4086ba193cb
parent 572d34b946bae070debd42db1143034d9687e13f
author Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> 1328026511 +0100
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1328135941 -0800

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>