[PATCH 1/6] mm: mmap: fix fput in error path

Christian König ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 08:13:14 UTC 2020


Am 10.10.20 um 00:25 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 03:04:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Fri,  9 Oct 2020 17:03:37 +0200 "Christian König" <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Patch "495c10cc1c0c CHROMIUM: dma-buf: restore args..."
>>> adds a workaround for a bug in mmap_region.
>>>
>>> As the comment states ->mmap() callback can change
>>> vma->vm_file and so we might call fput() on the wrong file.
>>>
>>> Revert the workaround and proper fix this in mmap_region.
>>>
>> Doesn't this patch series address the same thing as
>> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200916090733.31427-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com?
> Same basic issue, looks like both of these patches should be combined
> to plug it fully.

Yes, agree completely.

It's a different error path, but we need to fix both occasions.

Christian.

>
> Jason



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