Write-lock all VMAs which might be affected by a merge, split, expand or shrink operations. All these operations use vma_prepare() before making the modifications, therefore it provides a centralized place to perform VMA locking. Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 92893d86c0af..e73fbb84ce12 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -502,6 +502,16 @@ static inline void init_vma_prep(struct vma_prepare *vp, */ static inline void vma_prepare(struct vma_prepare *vp) { + if (vp->vma) + vma_start_write(vp->vma); + if (vp->adj_next) + vma_start_write(vp->adj_next); + /* vp->insert is always a newly created VMA, no need for locking */ + if (vp->remove) + vma_start_write(vp->remove); + if (vp->remove2) + vma_start_write(vp->remove2); + if (vp->file) { uprobe_munmap(vp->vma, vp->vma->vm_start, vp->vma->vm_end); -- 2.39.2.722.g9855ee24e9-goog