From a28bf136e651e17d7e2c753aa140ce3cc1df36a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:33:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] exec: Run sync_mm_rss before taking exec_update_mutex
Like exec_mm_release sync_mm_rss is about flushing out the state of
the old_mm, which does not need to happen under exec_update_mutex.
Make this explicit by moving sync_mm_rss outside of exec_update_mutex.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/875zd66za3.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
fs/exec.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 82106241ed53..ecee0ebebf85 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1051,13 +1051,14 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
tsk = current;
old_mm = current->mm;
exec_mm_release(tsk, old_mm);
+ if (old_mm)
+ sync_mm_rss(old_mm);
ret = mutex_lock_killable(&tsk->signal->exec_update_mutex);
if (ret)
return ret;
if (old_mm) {
- sync_mm_rss(old_mm);
/*
* Make sure that if there is a core dump in progress
* for the old mm, we get out and die instead of going