[RFC PATCH 19/28] mm: disallow do_swap_page to handle page faults under VMA lock

Suren Baghdasaryan surenb at google.com
Tue Aug 30 07:25:22 AEST 2022


Due to the possibility of do_swap_page dropping mmap_lock, abort fault
handling under VMA lock and retry holding mmap_lock. This can be handled
more gracefully in the future.

Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>
---
 mm/memory.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 9ac9944e8c62..29d2f49f922a 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3738,6 +3738,11 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	vm_fault_t ret = 0;
 	void *shadow = NULL;
 
+	if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) {
+		ret = VM_FAULT_RETRY;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	if (!pte_unmap_same(vmf))
 		goto out;
 
-- 
2.37.2.672.g94769d06f0-goog



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