[PATCH] ashmem: Shrink directly through shmem_fallocate

From: Joel Fernandes
Date: Fri Jul 06 2018 - 17:44:32 EST


From: Tobias Lindskog <tobias.lindskog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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);

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2.18.0.203.gfac676dfb9-goog