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ipc,shm: shorten critical region in shmctl_down

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Instead of holding the ipc lock for the entire function, use the
ipcctl_pre_down_nolock and only acquire the lock for specific commands:
RMID and SET.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Davidlohr Bueso 2013-09-11 14:26:16 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8b8d52ac38
commit 79ccf0f8c8
1 changed files with 6 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -780,11 +780,10 @@ static int shmctl_down(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int shmid, int cmd,
down_write(&shm_ids(ns).rw_mutex);
rcu_read_lock();
ipcp = ipcctl_pre_down(ns, &shm_ids(ns), shmid, cmd,
&shmid64.shm_perm, 0);
ipcp = ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(ns, &shm_ids(ns), shmid, cmd,
&shmid64.shm_perm, 0);
if (IS_ERR(ipcp)) {
err = PTR_ERR(ipcp);
/* the ipc lock is not held upon failure */
goto out_unlock1;
}
@ -792,14 +791,16 @@ static int shmctl_down(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int shmid, int cmd,
err = security_shm_shmctl(shp, cmd);
if (err)
goto out_unlock0;
goto out_unlock1;
switch (cmd) {
case IPC_RMID:
ipc_lock_object(&shp->shm_perm);
/* do_shm_rmid unlocks the ipc object and rcu */
do_shm_rmid(ns, ipcp);
goto out_up;
case IPC_SET:
ipc_lock_object(&shp->shm_perm);
err = ipc_update_perm(&shmid64.shm_perm, ipcp);
if (err)
goto out_unlock0;
@ -807,6 +808,7 @@ static int shmctl_down(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int shmid, int cmd,
break;
default:
err = -EINVAL;
goto out_unlock1;
}
out_unlock0: