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authorMaor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com>2017-03-29 06:03:02 +0300
committerDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>2017-04-21 12:26:05 -0400
commitecc7d83be3243835c9396a1a2fb8ce95f205207b (patch)
tree974b9d74fec90fb7532383312f2b5330a353e363
parentca37a664a8e4e9988b220988ceb4d79e3316f195 (diff)
IB/mlx5: Take write semaphore when changing the vma struct
When the driver disassociate user context, it changes the vma to anonymous by setting the vm_ops to null and zap the vma ptes. In order to avoid race in the kernel, we need to take write lock before we change the vma entries. Fixes: 7c2344c3bbf97 ('IB/mlx5: Implements disassociate_ucontext API') Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
index 4dc0a8785fe0..88070a7cde48 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
@@ -1478,7 +1478,7 @@ static void mlx5_ib_disassociate_ucontext(struct ib_ucontext *ibcontext)
/* need to protect from a race on closing the vma as part of
* mlx5_ib_vma_close.
*/
- down_read(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
+ down_write(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
list_for_each_entry_safe(vma_private, n, &context->vma_private_list,
list) {
vma = vma_private->vma;
@@ -1492,7 +1492,7 @@ static void mlx5_ib_disassociate_ucontext(struct ib_ucontext *ibcontext)
list_del(&vma_private->list);
kfree(vma_private);
}
- up_read(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
+ up_write(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
mmput(owning_mm);
put_task_struct(owning_process);
}