@akpm can you fix this up? On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 5:27 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While it's not strictly necessary to lock a newly created vma before > adding it into the vma tree (as long as no further changes are performed > to it), it seems like a good policy to lock it and prevent accidental > changes after it becomes visible to the page faults. Lock the vma before > adding it into the vma tree. > > Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > mm/mmap.c | 7 +++++-- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c > index 3937479d0e07..850a39dee075 100644 > --- a/mm/mmap.c > +++ b/mm/mmap.c > @@ -412,6 +412,8 @@ static int vma_link(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma) > if (vma_iter_prealloc(&vmi)) > return -ENOMEM; > > + vma_start_write(vma); > + > if (vma->vm_file) { > mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping; > i_mmap_lock_write(mapping); Something went wrong when this part of the patch was applied, because of a conflict with "mm/mmap: move vma operations to mm_struct out of the critical section of file mapping lock"; see how this patch ended up in the mm tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git/commit/?id=26cb4dafc13871ab68a4fb480ca1e19381cff392 > @@ -403,6 +403,8 @@ static int vma_link(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma) > > vma_iter_store(&vmi, vma); > > + vma_start_write(vma); > + > if (vma->vm_file) { > mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping; > i_mmap_lock_write(mapping); The "vma_start_write()" has to be ordered before the "vma_iter_store(&vmi, vma)".