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[v2,1/3] mm: lock a vma before stack expansion

Message ID 20230708191212.4147700-1-surenb@google.com (mailing list archive)
State Handled Elsewhere, archived
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Series [v2,1/3] mm: lock a vma before stack expansion | expand

Commit Message

Suren Baghdasaryan July 8, 2023, 7:12 p.m. UTC 
With recent changes necessitating mmap_lock to be held for write while
expanding a stack, per-VMA locks should follow the same rules and be
write-locked to prevent page faults into the VMA being expanded. Add
the necessary locking.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
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 mm/mmap.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 204ddcd52625..c66e4622a557 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1977,6 +1977,8 @@  static int expand_upwards(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
+	/* Lock the VMA before expanding to prevent concurrent page faults */
+	vma_start_write(vma);
 	/*
 	 * vma->vm_start/vm_end cannot change under us because the caller
 	 * is required to hold the mmap_lock in read mode.  We need the
@@ -2064,6 +2066,8 @@  int expand_downwards(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
+	/* Lock the VMA before expanding to prevent concurrent page faults */
+	vma_start_write(vma);
 	/*
 	 * vma->vm_start/vm_end cannot change under us because the caller
 	 * is required to hold the mmap_lock in read mode.  We need the