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Vineet Gupta 4d447455e7 ARC: mm: do_page_fault fixes #1: relinquish mmap_sem if signal arrives while handle_mm_fault
do_page_fault() forgot to relinquish mmap_sem if a signal came while
handling handle_mm_fault() - due to say a ctl+c or oom etc.
This would later cause a deadlock by acquiring it twice.

This came to light when running libc testsuite tst-tls3-malloc test but
is likely also the cause for prior seen LTP failures. Using lockdep
clearly showed what the issue was.

| # while true; do ./tst-tls3-malloc ; done
| Didn't expect signal from child: got `Segmentation fault'
| ^C
| ============================================
| WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
| 4.17.0+ #25 Not tainted
| --------------------------------------------
| tst-tls3-malloc/510 is trying to acquire lock:
| 606c7728 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}, at: __might_fault+0x28/0x5c
|
|but task is already holding lock:
|606c7728 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}, at: do_page_fault+0x9c/0x2a0
|
| other info that might help us debug this:
|  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
|
|       CPU0
|       ----
|  lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
|  lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
| *** DEADLOCK ***
|

------------------------------------------------------------
What the change does is not obvious (note to myself)

prior code was

| do_page_fault
|
|   down_read()		<-- lock taken
|   handle_mm_fault	<-- signal pending as this runs
|   if fatal_signal_pending
|       if VM_FAULT_ERROR
|           up_read
|       if user_mode
|          return	<-- lock still held, this was the BUG

New code

| do_page_fault
|
|   down_read()		<-- lock taken
|   handle_mm_fault	<-- signal pending as this runs
|   if fatal_signal_pending
|       if VM_FAULT_RETRY
|          return       <-- not same case as above, but still OK since
|                           core mm already relinq lock for FAULT_RETRY
|    ...
|
|   < Now falls through for bug case above >
|
|   up_read()		<-- lock relinquished

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2019-01-17 16:24:39 -08:00
..
Makefile ARC: mm: HIGHMEM: kmap API implementation 2015-10-28 19:49:04 +05:30
cache.c DMA mapping updates for Linux 4.21 2018-12-28 14:12:21 -08:00
dma.c dma-mapping: zero memory returned from dma_alloc_* 2018-12-20 08:13:52 +01:00
extable.c ARC: uaccess: enable INLINE_COPY_{TO,FROM}_USER ... 2017-03-30 00:07:48 -04:00
fault.c ARC: mm: do_page_fault fixes #1: relinquish mmap_sem if signal arrives while handle_mm_fault 2019-01-17 16:24:39 -08:00
highmem.c mm: remove include/linux/bootmem.h 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
init.c ARC: adjust memblock_reserve of kernel memory 2019-01-17 14:38:00 -08:00
ioremap.c ARCv2: Support dynamic peripheral address space in HS38 rel 3.0 cores 2016-09-30 14:48:17 -07:00
mmap.c mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas 2017-06-19 21:50:20 +08:00
tlb.c ARCv2: Accomodate HS48 MMUv5 by relaxing MMU ver checking 2017-11-06 11:31:21 -08:00
tlbex.S ARC: [plat-eznps] Fix TLB Errata 2017-08-28 15:17:36 -07:00