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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2009-07-09 21:27:38 -0400 |
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committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-08-10 06:48:32 -0400 |
commit | 00f89d218523b9bf6b522349c039d5ac80aa536d (patch) | |
tree | cde7a8bde2798e4fb3ae28756f6cedd4db9191cc /fs/proc/task_mmu.c | |
parent | 13f0feafa6b8aead57a2a328e2fca6a5828bf286 (diff) |
mm_for_maps: shift down_read(mmap_sem) to the caller
mm_for_maps() takes ->mmap_sem after security checks, this looks
strange and obfuscates the locking rules. Move this lock to its
single caller, m_start().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/task_mmu.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c index 6f61b7cc32e0..9bd8be1d235c 100644 --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c | |||
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ static void *m_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos) | |||
119 | mm = mm_for_maps(priv->task); | 119 | mm = mm_for_maps(priv->task); |
120 | if (!mm) | 120 | if (!mm) |
121 | return NULL; | 121 | return NULL; |
122 | down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); | ||
122 | 123 | ||
123 | tail_vma = get_gate_vma(priv->task); | 124 | tail_vma = get_gate_vma(priv->task); |
124 | priv->tail_vma = tail_vma; | 125 | priv->tail_vma = tail_vma; |