This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hugetlbfs: avoid taking i_mutex from hugetlbfs_read()
to the 3.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
hugetlbfs-avoid-taking-i_mutex-from-hugetlbfs_read.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From a05b0855fd15504972dba2358e5faa172a1e50ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:34:08 -0700
Subject: hugetlbfs: avoid taking i_mutex from hugetlbfs_read()
From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email protected]>
commit a05b0855fd15504972dba2358e5faa172a1e50ba upstream.
Taking i_mutex in hugetlbfs_read() can result in deadlock with mmap as
explained below
Thread A:
read() on hugetlbfs
hugetlbfs_read() called
i_mutex grabbed
hugetlbfs_read_actor() called
__copy_to_user() called
page fault is triggered
Thread B, sharing address space with A:
mmap() the same file
->mmap_sem is grabbed on task_B->mm->mmap_sem
hugetlbfs_file_mmap() is called
attempt to grab ->i_mutex and block waiting for A to give it up
Thread A:
pagefault handled blocked on attempt to grab task_A->mm->mmap_sem,
which happens to be the same thing as task_B->mm->mmap_sem. Block waiting
for B to give it up.
AFAIU the i_mutex locking was added to hugetlbfs_read() as per
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.2/3066.html to take
care of the race between truncate and read. This patch fixes this by
looking at page->mapping under lock_page() (find_lock_page()) to ensure
that the inode didn't get truncated in the range during a parallel read.
Ideally we can extend the patch to make sure we don't increase i_size in
mmap. But that will break userspace, because applications will now have
to use truncate(2) to increase i_size in hugetlbfs.
Based on the original patch from Hillf Danton.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>
Cc: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 25 +++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -238,17 +238,10 @@ static ssize_t hugetlbfs_read(struct fil
loff_t isize;
ssize_t retval = 0;
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
/* validate length */
if (len == 0)
goto out;
- isize = i_size_read(inode);
- if (!isize)
- goto out;
-
- end_index = (isize - 1) >> huge_page_shift(h);
for (;;) {
struct page *page;
unsigned long nr, ret;
@@ -256,18 +249,21 @@ static ssize_t hugetlbfs_read(struct fil
/* nr is the maximum number of bytes to copy from this page */
nr = huge_page_size(h);
+ isize = i_size_read(inode);
+ if (!isize)
+ goto out;
+ end_index = (isize - 1) >> huge_page_shift(h);
if (index >= end_index) {
if (index > end_index)
goto out;
nr = ((isize - 1) & ~huge_page_mask(h)) + 1;
- if (nr <= offset) {
+ if (nr <= offset)
goto out;
- }
}
nr = nr - offset;
/* Find the page */
- page = find_get_page(mapping, index);
+ page = find_lock_page(mapping, index);
if (unlikely(page == NULL)) {
/*
* We have a HOLE, zero out the user-buffer for the
@@ -279,17 +275,18 @@ static ssize_t hugetlbfs_read(struct fil
else
ra = 0;
} else {
+ unlock_page(page);
+
/*
* We have the page, copy it to user space buffer.
*/
ra = hugetlbfs_read_actor(page, offset, buf, len, nr);
ret = ra;
+ page_cache_release(page);
}
if (ra < 0) {
if (retval == 0)
retval = ra;
- if (page)
- page_cache_release(page);
goto out;
}
@@ -299,16 +296,12 @@ static ssize_t hugetlbfs_read(struct fil
index += offset >> huge_page_shift(h);
offset &= ~huge_page_mask(h);
- if (page)
- page_cache_release(page);
-
/* short read or no more work */
if ((ret != nr) || (len == 0))
break;
}
out:
*ppos = ((loff_t)index << huge_page_shift(h)) + offset;
- mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
return retval;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.2/hugetlbfs-avoid-taking-i_mutex-from-hugetlbfs_read.patch
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