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Jason Gunthorpe committed 14331726a3c
mm/hmm: Remove confusing comment and logic from hmm_release hmm_release() is called exactly once per hmm. ops->release() cannot accidentally trigger any action that would recurse back onto hmm->mirrors_sem. This fixes a use after-free race of the form: CPU0 CPU1 hmm_release() up_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); hmm_mirror_unregister(mirror) down_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); up_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); kfree(mirror) mirror->ops->release(mirror) The only user we have today for ops->release is an empty function, so this is unambiguously safe. As a consequence of plugging this race drivers are not allowed to register/unregister mirrors from within a release op. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Philip Yang <Philip.Yang@amd.com>