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authorDoug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>2019-07-01 18:50:11 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>2019-08-23 11:32:36 +0100
commitc51bc12d06b3a5494fbfcbd788a8e307932a06e9 (patch)
tree1be152722286130b0930674e5110f9492d088b6b /arch
parentd1abaeb3be7b5fa6d7a1fbbd2e14e3310005c4c1 (diff)
ARM: 8874/1: mm: only adjust sections of valid mm structures
A timing hazard exists when an early fork/exec thread begins exiting and sets its mm pointer to NULL while a separate core tries to update the section information. This commit ensures that the mm pointer is not NULL before setting its section parameters. The arguments provided by commit 11ce4b33aedc ("ARM: 8672/1: mm: remove tasklist locking from update_sections_early()") are equally valid for not requiring grabbing the task_lock around this check. Fixes: 08925c2f124f ("ARM: 8464/1: Update all mm structures with section adjustments") Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com> Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mm/init.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
index 16d373d587c4..3a65ded832df 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
@@ -628,7 +628,8 @@ static void update_sections_early(struct section_perm perms[], int n)
if (t->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
continue;
for_each_thread(t, s)
- set_section_perms(perms, n, true, s->mm);
+ if (s->mm)
+ set_section_perms(perms, n, true, s->mm);
}
set_section_perms(perms, n, true, current->active_mm);
set_section_perms(perms, n, true, &init_mm);