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authorDima Zavin <dima@android.com>2010-04-27 20:57:04 -0700
committerColin Cross <ccross@android.com>2010-09-29 17:49:33 -0700
commit16483f51c75c493f3016c0c3681b354a9d58872f (patch)
treeef3e0bc222b421b783f505848f60c51a756e49f2 /arch
parentc600bd3a2469fc006036730c84b585c7d89e2a14 (diff)
[ARM] Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held
We can't be holding the mmap_sem while calling flush_cache_user_range because the flush can fault. If we fault on a user address, the page fault handler will try to take mmap_sem again. Since both places acquire the read lock, most of the time it succeeds. However, if another thread tries to acquire the write lock on the mmap_sem (e.g. mmap) in between the call to flush_cache_user_range and the fault, the down_read in do_page_fault will deadlock. Also, since we really can't be holding the mmap_sem while calling flush_cache_user_range AND vma is actually unused by the flush itself, get rid of vma as an argument. Change-Id: If55409bde41ad1060fa4fe7cbd4ac530d4d9a106 Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h2
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/traps.c4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 4656a24058d2..5078dc6c50d8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ extern void flush_cache_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long user_addr
* Harvard caches are synchronised for the user space address range.
* This is used for the ARM private sys_cacheflush system call.
*/
-#define flush_cache_user_range(vma,start,end) \
+#define flush_cache_user_range(start,end) \
__cpuc_coherent_user_range((start) & PAGE_MASK, PAGE_ALIGN(end))
/*
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
index 81ff213e08e3..17c5649340ad 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -454,7 +454,9 @@ do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int flags)
if (end > vma->vm_end)
end = vma->vm_end;
- flush_cache_user_range(vma, start, end);
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ flush_cache_user_range(start, end);
+ return;
}
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
}