From 05f65b5c70909ef686f865f0a85406d74d75f70f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Herrmann Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 14:25:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] shm: wait for pins to be released when sealing If we set SEAL_WRITE on a file, we must make sure there cannot be any ongoing write-operations on the file. For write() calls, we simply lock the inode mutex, for mmap() we simply verify there're no writable mappings. However, there might be pages pinned by AIO, Direct-IO and similar operations via GUP. We must make sure those do not write to the memfd file after we set SEAL_WRITE. As there is no way to notify GUP users to drop pages or to wait for them to be done, we implement the wait ourself: When setting SEAL_WRITE, we check all pages for their ref-count. If it's bigger than 1, we know there's some user of the page. We then mark the page and wait for up to 150ms for those ref-counts to be dropped. If the ref-counts are not dropped in time, we refuse the seal operation. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Ryan Lortie Cc: Lennart Poettering Cc: Daniel Mack Cc: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed