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Commit e5834d62 authored by Shankar Brahadeeswaran's avatar Shankar Brahadeeswaran Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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staging: android: ashmem: get_name,set_name not to hold ashmem_mutex



Problem:
There exists a path in ashmem driver that could lead to acquistion
of mm->mmap_sem, ashmem_mutex in reverse order. This could lead
to deadlock in the system.
For Example, assume that mmap is called on a ashmem region
in the context of a thread say T1.
 sys_mmap_pgoff (1. acquires mm->mmap_sem)
  |
   --> mmap_region
 	|
         ----> ashmem_mmap (2. acquires asmem_mutex)
 Now if there is a context switch after 1 and before 2,
 and if another thread T2 (that shares the mm struct) invokes an
 ioctl say ASHMEM_GET_NAME, this can lead to the following path

ashmem_ioctl
  |
  -->get_name (3. acquires ashmem_mutex)
	|
	---> copy_to_user (4. acquires the mm->mmap_sem)
Note that the copy_to_user could lead to a valid fault if no
physical page is allocated yet for the user address passed.
Now T1 has mmap_sem and is waiting for ashmem_mutex.
and T2 has the ashmem_mutex and is waiting for mmap_sem
Thus leading to deadlock.

Solution:
Do not call copy_to_user or copy_from_user while holding the
ahsmem_mutex. Instead copy this to a local buffer that lives
in the stack while holding this lock. This will maintain data
integrity as well never reverse the lock order.

Testing:
Created a unit test case to reproduce the problem.
Used the same to test this fix on kernel version 3.4.0
Ported the same patch to 3.8

Signed-off-by: default avatarShankar Brahadeeswaran <shankoo77@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 573632c2
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