[PATCH] ashmem: Shrink directly through shmem_fallocate

Joel Fernandes joel at joelfernandes.org
Fri Jul 6 21:44:16 UTC 2018


From: Tobias Lindskog <tobias.lindskog at sonymobile.com>

When ashmem_shrink is called from direct reclaim on a user thread, a
call to do_fallocate will check for permissions against the security
policy of that user thread.  It can thus fail by chance if called on a
thread that isn't permitted to modify the relevant ashmem areas.

Because we know that we have a shmem file underneath, call the shmem
implementation of fallocate directly instead of going through the
user-space interface for fallocate.

Bug: 21951515
Signed-off-by: Tobias Lindskog <tobias.lindskog at sonymobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel at joelfernandes.org>
---
 drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
index a1a0025b59e0..23ff9ee80386 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
@@ -444,9 +444,9 @@ ashmem_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
 		loff_t start = range->pgstart * PAGE_SIZE;
 		loff_t end = (range->pgend + 1) * PAGE_SIZE;
 
-		vfs_fallocate(range->asma->file,
-			      FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE,
-			      start, end - start);
+		range->asma->file->f_op->fallocate(range->asma->file,
+				FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE,
+				start, end - start);
 		range->purged = ASHMEM_WAS_PURGED;
 		lru_del(range);
 
-- 
2.18.0.203.gfac676dfb9-goog



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