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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2016-10-08 02:01:22 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-08 03:46:29 +0200
commit6d2329f8872f23e46a19d240930571510ce525eb (patch)
tree598cc5a8d764aa497570b359fc1328be5fa105cc /mm/huge_memory.c
parentmm,ksm: add __GFP_HIGH to the allocation in alloc_stable_node() (diff)
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mm: vm_page_prot: update with WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE
vma->vm_page_prot is read lockless from the rmap_walk, it may be updated concurrently and this prevents the risk of reading intermediate values. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474660305-19222-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Jan Vorlicek <janvorli@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/huge_memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 12b9f1a39b63..cdcd25cb30fe 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1620,7 +1620,7 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
if (soft_dirty)
entry = pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(entry);
} else {
- entry = mk_pte(page + i, vma->vm_page_prot);
+ entry = mk_pte(page + i, READ_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot));
entry = maybe_mkwrite(entry, vma);
if (!write)
entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);