rmap: anon_vma_prepare() can leak anon_vma_chain
authorOleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:18:01 +0000 (13:18 -0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:31:25 +0000 (11:31 -0700)
If find_mergeable_anon_vma() succeeds but another thread installs
->anon_vma before we take ptl, then allocated == NULL but avc should be
freed.  Change the code to check avc != NULL to detect this case.

Also, a couple of whitespace changes to make the critical section more
visible.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/rmap.c

index 526704e8215d0f3124769083bc0f14e2817cab3a..07fc94758799b778e39ac8796216e84d8c2548e0 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ int anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
                                goto out_enomem_free_avc;
                        allocated = anon_vma;
                }
-               spin_lock(&anon_vma->lock);
 
+               spin_lock(&anon_vma->lock);
                /* page_table_lock to protect against threads */
                spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
                if (likely(!vma->anon_vma)) {
@@ -144,14 +144,15 @@ int anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
                        list_add(&avc->same_vma, &vma->anon_vma_chain);
                        list_add(&avc->same_anon_vma, &anon_vma->head);
                        allocated = NULL;
+                       avc = NULL;
                }
                spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
-
                spin_unlock(&anon_vma->lock);
-               if (unlikely(allocated)) {
+
+               if (unlikely(allocated))
                        anon_vma_free(allocated);
+               if (unlikely(avc))
                        anon_vma_chain_free(avc);
-               }
        }
        return 0;