[PATCH] ARM: mm: only adjust sections of valid mm structures
From: Doug Berger
Date: Thu Jun 27 2019 - 17:33:25 EST
A timing hazard exists when an early fork/exec thread begins
exiting and sets its mm pointer to NULL while a separate core
tries to update the section information.
This commit ensures that the mm pointer is not NULL before
setting its section parameters. The arguments provided by
commit 11ce4b33aedc ("ARM: 8672/1: mm: remove tasklist locking
from update_sections_early()") are equally valid for not
requiring grabbing the task_lock around this check.
Fixes: 08925c2f124f ("ARM: 8464/1: Update all mm structures with section adjustments")
Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/mm/init.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
index be0b42937888..bdc70dff477b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
@@ -616,7 +616,8 @@ static void update_sections_early(struct section_perm perms[], int n)
if (t->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
continue;
for_each_thread(t, s)
- set_section_perms(perms, n, true, s->mm);
+ if (s->mm)
+ set_section_perms(perms, n, true, s->mm);
}
set_section_perms(perms, n, true, current->active_mm);
set_section_perms(perms, n, true, &init_mm);
--
2.7.4