prctl_set_mm: downgrade mmap_sem to read lock

The commit a3b609ef9f8b ("proc read mm's {arg,env}_{start,end} with mmap
semaphore taken.") added synchronization of reading argument/environment
boundaries under mmap_sem.  Later commit 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce
arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct") avoided
the coarse use of mmap_sem in similar situations.  But there still
remained two places that (mis)use mmap_sem.

get_cmdline should also use arg_lock instead of mmap_sem when it reads the
boundaries.

The second place that should use arg_lock is in prctl_set_mm.  By
protecting the boundaries fields with the arg_lock, we can downgrade
mmap_sem to reader lock (analogous to what we already do in
prctl_set_mm_map).

[[email protected]: coding style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct")
Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Laurent Dufour <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Shi <[email protected]>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 775bf8d18d03..2969304c29fe 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -2127,9 +2127,15 @@ static int prctl_set_mm(int opt, unsigned long addr,
 
 	error = -EINVAL;
 
-	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+	/*
+	 * arg_lock protects concurent updates of arg boundaries, we need
+	 * mmap_sem for a) concurrent sys_brk, b) finding VMA for addr
+	 * validation.
+	 */
+	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
 
+	spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock);
 	prctl_map.start_code	= mm->start_code;
 	prctl_map.end_code	= mm->end_code;
 	prctl_map.start_data	= mm->start_data;
@@ -2217,7 +2223,8 @@ static int prctl_set_mm(int opt, unsigned long addr,
 
 	error = 0;
 out:
-	up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+	spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock);
+	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	return error;
 }
 
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 91682a2090ee..9834c4ab7d8e 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -718,12 +718,12 @@ int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen)
 	if (!mm->arg_end)
 		goto out_mm;	/* Shh! No looking before we're done */
 
-	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+	spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock);
 	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);
+	spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock);
 
 	len = arg_end - arg_start;