Hello Jan, On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 07:19:39PM +0100, Jan Stancek wrote: > + struct mm_struct *vm_mm = READ_ONCE(vma->vm_mm); The vma->vm_mm cannot change under gcc there, so no need of READ_ONCE. The release of mmap_sem has release semantics so the vma->vm_mm access cannot be reordered after up_read(mmap_sem) either. Other than the above detail: Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Andrea