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rmap: anon_vma_prepare() can leak anon_vma_chain
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If find_mergeable_anon_vma() succeeds but another thread installs
->anon_vma before we take ptl, then allocated == NULL but avc should be
freed.  Change the code to check avc != NULL to detect this case.

Also, a couple of whitespace changes to make the critical section more
visible.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored and Linus Torvalds committed Apr 24, 2010
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9 changes: 5 additions & 4 deletions mm/rmap.c
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Expand Up @@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ int anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
goto out_enomem_free_avc;
allocated = anon_vma;
}
spin_lock(&anon_vma->lock);

spin_lock(&anon_vma->lock);
/* page_table_lock to protect against threads */
spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
if (likely(!vma->anon_vma)) {
Expand All @@ -144,14 +144,15 @@ int anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
list_add(&avc->same_vma, &vma->anon_vma_chain);
list_add(&avc->same_anon_vma, &anon_vma->head);
allocated = NULL;
avc = NULL;
}
spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);

spin_unlock(&anon_vma->lock);
if (unlikely(allocated)) {

if (unlikely(allocated))
anon_vma_free(allocated);
if (unlikely(avc))
anon_vma_chain_free(avc);
}
}
return 0;

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