fork: copy mm's vm usage counters under mmap_sem If a forking process has a thread calling (un)mmap (silly but still), the child process may have some of its mm's vm usage counters (total_vm and friends) screwed up, because currently they are copied from oldmm w/o holding any locks (memcpy in dup_mm). This patch moves the counters initialization to dup_mmap() to be called under oldmm->mmap_sem, which eliminates any possibility of race. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 5a547a5..aff84f8 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -374,6 +374,11 @@ */ down_write_nested(&mm->mmap_sem, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING); + mm->total_vm = oldmm->total_vm; + mm->shared_vm = oldmm->shared_vm; + mm->exec_vm = oldmm->exec_vm; + mm->stack_vm = oldmm->stack_vm; + rb_link = &mm->mm_rb.rb_node; rb_parent = NULL; pprev = &mm->mmap;