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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sys.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index d5ea3360038c..25cf2aa72d3b 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1854,7 +1854,11 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data return error; } - down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); + /* + * arg_lock protects concurent updates but we still need mmap_sem for + * read to exclude races with sys_brk. + */ + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); /* * We don't validate if these members are pointing to @@ -1868,6 +1872,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data * to any problem in kernel itself */ + spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock); mm->start_code = prctl_map.start_code; mm->end_code = prctl_map.end_code; mm->start_data = prctl_map.start_data; @@ -1879,6 +1884,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data mm->arg_end = prctl_map.arg_end; mm->env_start = prctl_map.env_start; mm->env_end = prctl_map.env_end; + spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock); /* * Note this update of @saved_auxv is lockless thus @@ -1891,7 +1897,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data if (prctl_map.auxv_size) memcpy(mm->saved_auxv, user_auxv, sizeof(user_auxv)); - up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); return 0; } #endif /* CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE */ |