When the driver disassociate user context, it changes the vma to
anonymous by setting the vm_ops to null and zap the vma ptes.
In order to avoid race in the kernel, we need to take write lock
before we change the vma entries.
Fixes: ae184ddeca5db ('IB/mlx4_ib: Disassociate support')
Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
/* need to protect from a race on closing the vma as part of
* mlx4_ib_vma_close().
*/
- down_read(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
+ down_write(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
for (i = 0; i < HW_BAR_COUNT; i++) {
vma = context->hw_bar_info[i].vma;
if (!vma)
context->hw_bar_info[i].vma->vm_ops = NULL;
}
- up_read(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
+ up_write(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
mmput(owning_mm);
put_task_struct(owning_process);
}