Re: [PATCH] mm: fix protection of mm_struct fields in get_cmdline()

[Kirill Tkhai]

Hi, Konstantin,

On 15.05.2019 11:15, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Since commit 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|
> end and env_start|end in mm_struct") related mm fields are protected with
> separate spinlock and mmap_sem held for read is not enough for protection.
> 
> Fixes: 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct")
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

is this already fixed in Michal's series: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/2/422 ?

Thanks,
Kirill

> ---
>  mm/util.c |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
> index e2e4f8c3fa12..540e7c157cf2 100644
> --- a/mm/util.c
> +++ b/mm/util.c
> @@ -717,12 +717,12 @@ int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen)
>  	if (!mm->arg_end)
>  		goto out_mm;	/* Shh! No looking before we're done */
>  
> -	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> +	spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock);
>  	arg_start = mm->arg_start;
>  	arg_end = mm->arg_end;
>  	env_start = mm->env_start;
>  	env_end = mm->env_end;
> -	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> +	spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock);
>  
>  	len = arg_end - arg_start;
>  
>