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prctl_set_mm: downgrade mmap_sem to read lock
The commit a3b609e ("proc read mm's {arg,env}_{start,end} with mmap semaphore taken.") added synchronization of reading argument/environment boundaries under mmap_sem. Later commit 88aa7cc ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct") avoided the coarse use of mmap_sem in similar situations. But there still remained two places that (mis)use mmap_sem. get_cmdline should also use arg_lock instead of mmap_sem when it reads the boundaries. The second place that should use arg_lock is in prctl_set_mm. By protecting the boundaries fields with the arg_lock, we can downgrade mmap_sem to reader lock (analogous to what we already do in prctl_set_mm_map). [[email protected]: coding style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: 88aa7cc ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct") Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Laurent Dufour <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Yang Shi <[email protected]> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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