Commit f31ad92f authored by Jaya Kumar's avatar Jaya Kumar Committed by Linus Torvalds

fbdev: bugfix for multiprocess defio

This patch is a bugfix for how defio handles multiple processes manipulating
the same framebuffer.

Thanks to Bernard Blackham for identifying this bug.

It occurs when two applications mmap the same framebuffer and concurrently
write to the same page.  Normally, this doesn't occur since only a single
process mmaps the framebuffer.  The symptom of the bug is that the mapping
applications will hang.  The cause is that defio incorrectly tries to add the
same page twice to the pagelist.  The solution I have is to walk the pagelist
and check for a duplicate before adding.  Since I needed to walk the pagelist,
I now also keep the pagelist in sorted order.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernard Blackham <bernard@largestprime.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 4fc89e39
......@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ static int fb_deferred_io_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
{
struct fb_info *info = vma->vm_private_data;
struct fb_deferred_io *fbdefio = info->fbdefio;
struct page *cur;
/* this is a callback we get when userspace first tries to
write to the page. we schedule a workqueue. that workqueue
......@@ -83,7 +84,24 @@ static int fb_deferred_io_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
/* protect against the workqueue changing the page list */
mutex_lock(&fbdefio->lock);
list_add(&page->lru, &fbdefio->pagelist);
/* we loop through the pagelist before adding in order
to keep the pagelist sorted */
list_for_each_entry(cur, &fbdefio->pagelist, lru) {
/* this check is to catch the case where a new
process could start writing to the same page
through a new pte. this new access can cause the
mkwrite even when the original ps's pte is marked
writable */
if (unlikely(cur == page))
goto page_already_added;
else if (cur->index > page->index)
break;
}
list_add_tail(&page->lru, &cur->lru);
page_already_added:
mutex_unlock(&fbdefio->lock);
/* come back after delay to process the deferred IO */
......
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