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SubjectRe: [PATCH 41/41] mm: replace rw_semaphore with atomic_t in vma_lock
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:12 AM Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 9:55 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> wrote:
> > rw_semaphore is a sizable structure of 40 bytes and consumes
> > considerable space for each vm_area_struct. However vma_lock has
> > two important specifics which can be used to replace rw_semaphore
> > with a simpler structure:
> [...]
> > static inline void vma_read_unlock(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > {
> > - up_read(&vma->vm_lock->lock);
> > + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&vma->vm_lock->count))
> > + wake_up(&vma->vm_mm->vma_writer_wait);
> > }
>
> I haven't properly reviewed this, but this bit looks like a
> use-after-free because you're accessing the vma after dropping your
> reference on it. You'd have to first look up the vma->vm_mm, then do
> the atomic_dec_and_test(), and afterwards do the wake_up() without
> touching the vma. Or alternatively wrap the whole thing in an RCU
> read-side critical section if the VMA is freed with RCU delay.

vm_lock->count does not control the lifetime of the VMA, it's a
counter of how many readers took the lock or it's negative if the lock
is write-locked.

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