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| author | Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> | 2017-10-04 01:14:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-10-04 02:54:23 +0200 |
| commit | 4b22927f0cbd58303aac689e378d20bf56267a39 (patch) | |
| tree | c62d33d5689dda2c2f0bcb259f13e0c99dd89ada /mm/ksm.c | |
| parent | include/linux/mm.h: fix typo in VM_MPX definition (diff) | |
| download | linux-4b22927f0cbd58303aac689e378d20bf56267a39.tar.xz linux-4b22927f0cbd58303aac689e378d20bf56267a39.zip | |
ksm: fix unlocked iteration over vmas in cmp_and_merge_page()
In this place mm is unlocked, so vmas or list may change. Down read
mmap_sem to protect them from modifications.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150512788393.10691.8868381099691121308.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Fixes: e86c59b1b12d ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring")
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/ksm.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/ksm.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1990,6 +1990,7 @@ static void stable_tree_append(struct rmap_item *rmap_item, */ static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item) { + struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm; struct rmap_item *tree_rmap_item; struct page *tree_page = NULL; struct stable_node *stable_node; @@ -2062,9 +2063,11 @@ static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item) if (ksm_use_zero_pages && (checksum == zero_checksum)) { struct vm_area_struct *vma; - vma = find_mergeable_vma(rmap_item->mm, rmap_item->address); + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, rmap_item->address); err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page, ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address)); + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); /* * In case of failure, the page was not really empty, so we * need to continue. Otherwise we're done. |