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Re: [more fun] Re: locking question: do_mmap(), do_munmap()

To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [more fun] Re: locking question: do_mmap(), do_munmap()
From: Manfred Spraul <manfreds@colorfullife.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:35:45 +0200
CC: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
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Alexander Viro wrote:
> Another one: ptrace_readdata() -> access_process_vm() -> find_extend_vma()
> -> make_pages_present(). Again, no mmap_sem in sight.

Can 2 processes ptrace() each other? If yes, then this will lock-up if
you acquire the mmap_sem.

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