The loser of a race to service a pte for a device private entry in the swap path previously unlocked the ptl, but failed to unmap the pte. This only affects highmem systems since unmapping a pte is a noop on non-highmem systems. Fixes: 16ce101db85d ("mm/memory.c: fix race when faulting a device private page") Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index f69fbc251198..ed429e20a1bb 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3728,10 +3728,8 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf) vmf->page = pfn_swap_entry_to_page(entry); vmf->pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd, vmf->address, &vmf->ptl); - if (unlikely(!pte_same(*vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte))) { - spin_unlock(vmf->ptl); - goto out; - } + if (unlikely(!pte_same(*vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte))) + goto unlock; /* * Get a page reference while we know the page can't be -- 2.25.1