Hugetlb walker lock makes sure the pte_t* won't go away from under us. Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 5ef883184885..fc49e3ca8acd 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -6222,9 +6222,10 @@ struct page *hugetlb_follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & FOLL_PIN)) return NULL; + hugetlb_walker_lock(); pte = huge_pte_offset(mm, haddr, huge_page_size(h)); if (!pte) - return NULL; + goto out_unlock; ptl = huge_pte_lock(h, mm, pte); entry = huge_ptep_get(pte); @@ -6247,6 +6248,8 @@ struct page *hugetlb_follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma, } out: spin_unlock(ptl); +out_unlock: + hugetlb_walker_unlock(); return page; } -- 2.37.3