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| author | Andrea Arcangeli | 2016-10-08 02:01:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2016-10-08 03:46:29 +0200 |
| commit | 6d2329f8872f23e46a19d240930571510ce525eb (patch) | |
| tree | 598cc5a8d764aa497570b359fc1328be5fa105cc /mm/huge_memory.c | |
| parent | mm,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.c | 2 |
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); |