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Commit d2005e3f authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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userfaultfd: don't pin the user memory in userfaultfd_file_create()

userfaultfd_file_create() increments mm->mm_users; this means that the
memory won't be unmapped/freed if mm owner exits/execs, and UFFDIO_COPY
after that can populate the orphaned mm more.

Change userfaultfd_file_create() and userfaultfd_ctx_put() to use
mm->mm_count to pin mm_struct.  This means that
atomic_inc_not_zero(mm->mm_users) is needed when we are going to
actually play with this memory.  Except handle_userfault() path doesn't
need this, the caller must already have a reference.

The patch adds the new trivial helper, mmget_not_zero(), it can have
more users.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516172254.GA8595@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent cd33a76b
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