vma_expand and vma_shrink change VMA boundaries. Expansion might also result in freeing of an adjacent VMA. Write-lock affected VMAs to prevent concurrent page faults. Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index ec2f8d0af280..f079e5bbcd57 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -674,6 +674,9 @@ int vma_expand(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct vm_area_struct *vma, ret = dup_anon_vma(vma, next); if (ret) return ret; + + /* Lock the VMA before removing it */ + vma_start_write(next); } init_multi_vma_prep(&vp, vma, NULL, remove_next ? next : NULL, NULL); @@ -686,6 +689,7 @@ int vma_expand(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (vma_iter_prealloc(vmi)) goto nomem; + vma_start_write(vma); vma_adjust_trans_huge(vma, start, end, 0); /* VMA iterator points to previous, so set to start if necessary */ if (vma_iter_addr(vmi) != start) @@ -725,6 +729,7 @@ int vma_shrink(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (vma_iter_prealloc(vmi)) return -ENOMEM; + vma_start_write(vma); init_vma_prep(&vp, vma); vma_adjust_trans_huge(vma, start, end, 0); vma_prepare(&vp); -- 2.39.1