[PATCH 21/41] mm/mmap: write-lock VMAs affected by VMA expansion
Suren Baghdasaryan
surenb at google.com
Tue Jan 10 07:53:16 AEDT 2023
vma_expand changes VMA boundaries and might result in freeing an adjacent
VMA. Write-lock affected VMAs to prevent concurrent page faults.
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>
---
mm/mmap.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 1e2154137631..ff02cb51e7e7 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -544,6 +544,7 @@ inline int vma_expand(struct ma_state *mas, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (mas_preallocate(mas, vma, GFP_KERNEL))
goto nomem;
+ vma_write_lock(vma);
vma_adjust_trans_huge(vma, start, end, 0);
if (file) {
@@ -590,6 +591,7 @@ inline int vma_expand(struct ma_state *mas, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}
if (remove_next) {
+ vma_write_lock(next);
if (file) {
uprobe_munmap(next, next->vm_start, next->vm_end);
fput(file);
--
2.39.0
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