releases/3.2.14/hugetlbfs-avoid-taking-i_mutex-from-hugetlbfs_read.patch

From a05b0855fd15504972dba2358e5faa172a1e50ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:34:08 -0700
Subject: hugetlbfs: avoid taking i_mutex from hugetlbfs_read()

From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit a05b0855fd15504972dba2358e5faa172a1e50ba upstream.

Taking i_mutex in hugetlbfs_read() can result in deadlock with mmap as
explained below

 Thread A:
  read() on hugetlbfs
   hugetlbfs_read() called
    i_mutex grabbed
     hugetlbfs_read_actor() called
      __copy_to_user() called
       page fault is triggered
 Thread B, sharing address space with A:
  mmap() the same file
   ->mmap_sem is grabbed on task_B->mm->mmap_sem
    hugetlbfs_file_mmap() is called
     attempt to grab ->i_mutex and block waiting for A to give it up
 Thread A:
  pagefault handled blocked on attempt to grab task_A->mm->mmap_sem,
 which happens to be the same thing as task_B->mm->mmap_sem.  Block waiting
 for B to give it up.

AFAIU the i_mutex locking was added to hugetlbfs_read() as per
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.2/3066.html to take
care of the race between truncate and read.  This patch fixes this by
looking at page->mapping under lock_page() (find_lock_page()) to ensure
that the inode didn't get truncated in the range during a parallel read.

Ideally we can extend the patch to make sure we don't increase i_size in
mmap.  But that will break userspace, because applications will now have
to use truncate(2) to increase i_size in hugetlbfs.

Based on the original patch from Hillf Danton.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c |   25 +++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -238,17 +238,10 @@ static ssize_t hugetlbfs_read(struct fil
 	loff_t isize;
 	ssize_t retval = 0;
 
-	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
 	/* validate length */
 	if (len == 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	isize = i_size_read(inode);
-	if (!isize)
-		goto out;
-
-	end_index = (isize - 1) >> huge_page_shift(h);
 	for (;;) {
 		struct page *page;
 		unsigned long nr, ret;
@@ -256,18 +249,21 @@ static ssize_t hugetlbfs_read(struct fil
 
 		/* nr is the maximum number of bytes to copy from this page */
 		nr = huge_page_size(h);
+		isize = i_size_read(inode);
+		if (!isize)
+			goto out;
+		end_index = (isize - 1) >> huge_page_shift(h);
 		if (index >= end_index) {
 			if (index > end_index)
 				goto out;
 			nr = ((isize - 1) & ~huge_page_mask(h)) + 1;
-			if (nr <= offset) {
+			if (nr <= offset)
 				goto out;
-			}
 		}
 		nr = nr - offset;
 
 		/* Find the page */
-		page = find_get_page(mapping, index);
+		page = find_lock_page(mapping, index);
 		if (unlikely(page == NULL)) {
 			/*
 			 * We have a HOLE, zero out the user-buffer for the
@@ -279,17 +275,18 @@ static ssize_t hugetlbfs_read(struct fil
 			else
 				ra = 0;
 		} else {
+			unlock_page(page);
+
 			/*
 			 * We have the page, copy it to user space buffer.
 			 */
 			ra = hugetlbfs_read_actor(page, offset, buf, len, nr);
 			ret = ra;
+			page_cache_release(page);
 		}
 		if (ra < 0) {
 			if (retval == 0)
 				retval = ra;
-			if (page)
-				page_cache_release(page);
 			goto out;
 		}
 
@@ -299,16 +296,12 @@ static ssize_t hugetlbfs_read(struct fil
 		index += offset >> huge_page_shift(h);
 		offset &= ~huge_page_mask(h);
 
-		if (page)
-			page_cache_release(page);
-
 		/* short read or no more work */
 		if ((ret != nr) || (len == 0))
 			break;
 	}
 out:
 	*ppos = ((loff_t)index << huge_page_shift(h)) + offset;
-	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	return retval;
 }