From 4f7d461433bb4a4deee61baefdac6cd1a1ecb546 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Davydov Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 14:22:01 -0700 Subject: fork: copy mm's vm usage counters under mmap_sem If a forking process has a thread calling (un)mmap (silly but still), the child process may have some of its mm's vm usage counters (total_vm and friends) screwed up, because currently they are copied from oldmm w/o holding any locks (memcpy in dup_mm). This patch moves the counters initialization to dup_mmap() to be called under oldmm->mmap_sem, which eliminates any possibility of race. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/fork.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 5a547a5..aff84f8 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -374,6 +374,11 @@ static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm) */ down_write_nested(&mm->mmap_sem, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING); + mm->total_vm = oldmm->total_vm; + mm->shared_vm = oldmm->shared_vm; + mm->exec_vm = oldmm->exec_vm; + mm->stack_vm = oldmm->stack_vm; + rb_link = &mm->mm_rb.rb_node; rb_parent = NULL; pprev = &mm->mmap; -- cgit v1.1