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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: " Christian König " <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: mmap: fix fput in error path v2
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 14:48:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201106144811.cf228ca9278ec78887d42960@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201106114806.46015-2-christian.koenig@amd.com>

On Fri,  6 Nov 2020 12:48:05 +0100 "Christian König" <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@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.
> 

Seems correct, best I can tell.  Presumably all ->mmap() instances will
correctly fput() to original file* if they're rewriting vma->vm_file.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-06 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-06 11:48 cleanup a fix and add the vma_set_file function Christian König
2020-11-06 11:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: mmap: fix fput in error path v2 Christian König
2020-11-06 22:48   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2020-11-18 10:57     ` Christian König
2020-11-18 22:27       ` Andrew Morton
2020-11-06 11:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: introduce vma_set_file function v5 Christian König
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-10-12  8:52 [PATCH 1/2] mm: mmap: fix fput in error path v2 Christian König
2020-10-16 16:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-04  8:03 ` Christian König

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