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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-16 09:44:32 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-16 09:44:32 -0800
commit2f77d107050abc14bc393b34bdb7b91cf670c250 (patch)
tree6651586fb1b10f60cd6acdb3222bafac9c2d7aa8 /kernel
parent0221872a3b0aa2fa2f3fa60affcbaebd662c4a90 (diff)
Fix incorrect user space access locking in mincore()
Doug Chapman noticed that mincore() will doa "copy_to_user()" of the result while holding the mmap semaphore for reading, which is a big no-no. While a recursive read-lock on a semaphore in the case of a page fault happens to work, we don't actually allow them due to deadlock schenarios with writers due to fairness issues. Doug and Marcel sent in a patch to fix it, but I decided to just rewrite the mess instead - not just fixing the locking problem, but making the code smaller and (imho) much easier to understand. Cc: Doug Chapman <dchapman@redhat.com> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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