[PATCH] binder: Drop needless locking in binder_mmap()

From: Dmitry Safonov
Date: Wed May 24 2017 - 10:52:09 EST


binder_mmap() protected proc->buffer from concurrent changes.
It was introduced with commit bd1eff9741af ("Staging: android: binder:
Fix crashes when sharing a binder file between processes").

The commit fixed such races alike:

task1
=====
fd = open("/dev/binder",..)
fork()
---------------------------------------->task2
| =====
mmap(fd) mmap(fd)

Afterwards the situation was changed with the commit a79f41ed9786
("binder: don't allow mmap() by process other than proc->tsk").
That commit prohibited mmap'ing of fd, that was opened by some
other task.
That restriction has made locking in binder_mmap() unnecessary.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Arve HjÃnnevÃg" <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Riley Andrews <riandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/android/binder.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
index aae4d8d4be36..b5b32be85ab8 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@

static DEFINE_MUTEX(binder_main_lock);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(binder_deferred_lock);
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(binder_mmap_lock);

static HLIST_HEAD(binder_devices);
static HLIST_HEAD(binder_procs);
@@ -3381,7 +3380,6 @@ static int binder_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
}
vma->vm_flags = (vma->vm_flags | VM_DONTCOPY) & ~VM_MAYWRITE;

- mutex_lock(&binder_mmap_lock);
if (proc->buffer) {
ret = -EBUSY;
failure_string = "already mapped";
@@ -3396,7 +3394,6 @@ static int binder_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
}
proc->buffer = area->addr;
proc->user_buffer_offset = vma->vm_start - (uintptr_t)proc->buffer;
- mutex_unlock(&binder_mmap_lock);

#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_CACHE_VIPT
if (cache_is_vipt_aliasing()) {
@@ -3441,12 +3438,10 @@ static int binder_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
kfree(proc->pages);
proc->pages = NULL;
err_alloc_pages_failed:
- mutex_lock(&binder_mmap_lock);
vfree(proc->buffer);
proc->buffer = NULL;
err_get_vm_area_failed:
err_already_mapped:
- mutex_unlock(&binder_mmap_lock);
err_bad_arg:
pr_err("binder_mmap: %d %lx-%lx %s failed %d\n",
proc->pid, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, failure_string, ret);
--
2.12.2