On 03/21/2018 11:16 AM, jgli...@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Jérôme Glisse <jgli...@redhat.com>
>
> This code was lost in translation at one point. This properly call
> mmu_notifier_unregister_no_release() once last user is gone. This
> fix the zombie mm_struct as without this patch we do not drop the
> refcount we have on it.
>
> Changed since v1:
> - close race window between a last mirror unregistering and a new
> mirror registering, which could have lead to use after free()
> kind of bug
>
> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jgli...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Evgeny Baskakov <ebaska...@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampb...@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Mark Hairgrove <mhairgr...@nvidia.com>
> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubb...@nvidia.com>
> ---
> mm/hmm.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
> index 6088fa6ed137..f75aa8df6e97 100644
> --- a/mm/hmm.c
> +++ b/mm/hmm.c
> @@ -222,13 +222,24 @@ int hmm_mirror_register(struct hmm_mirror *mirror,
> struct mm_struct *mm)
> if (!mm || !mirror || !mirror->ops)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> +again:
> mirror->hmm = hmm_register(mm);
> if (!mirror->hmm)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> down_write(&mirror->hmm->mirrors_sem);
> - list_add(&mirror->list, &mirror->hmm->mirrors);
> - up_write(&mirror->hmm->mirrors_sem);
> + if (mirror->hmm->mm == NULL) {
> + /*
> + * A racing hmm_mirror_unregister() is about to destroy the hmm
> + * struct. Try again to allocate a new one.
> + */
> + up_write(&mirror->hmm->mirrors_sem);
> + mirror->hmm = NULL;
This is being set outside of locks, so now there is another race with
another hmm_mirror_register...
I'll take a moment and draft up what I have in mind here, which is a more
symmetrical locking scheme for these routines.
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA
