[ARM] Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held
authorDima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:57:04 +0000 (20:57 -0700)
committerColin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:49:33 +0000 (17:49 -0700)
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>
arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c

index 4656a24058d21f75d30097ae5b06a1b66863bdd9..5078dc6c50d897395de52f8c1d77d00980558463 100644 (file)
@@ -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))
 
 /*
index 81ff213e08e39c01b8ec12e72a627855ae31e502..17c5649340ad57d213dc91d2bc8d56872a0c8e16 100644 (file)
@@ -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);
 }