Drop the VMA lock instead of the mmap_lock if that's the one which is held. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/filemap.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 9481ffaf24e6..a598872d62cc 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -3104,7 +3104,7 @@ static int lock_folio_maybe_drop_mmap(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio, /* * NOTE! This will make us return with VM_FAULT_RETRY, but with - * the mmap_lock still held. That's how FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT + * the fault lock still held. That's how FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT * is supposed to work. We have way too many special cases.. */ if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT) @@ -3114,13 +3114,14 @@ static int lock_folio_maybe_drop_mmap(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio, if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE) { if (__folio_lock_killable(folio)) { /* - * We didn't have the right flags to drop the mmap_lock, - * but all fault_handlers only check for fatal signals - * if we return VM_FAULT_RETRY, so we need to drop the - * mmap_lock here and return 0 if we don't have a fpin. + * We didn't have the right flags to drop the + * fault lock, but all fault_handlers only check + * for fatal signals if we return VM_FAULT_RETRY, + * so we need to drop the fault lock here and + * return 0 if we don't have a fpin. */ if (*fpin == NULL) - mmap_read_unlock(vmf->vma->vm_mm); + release_fault_lock(vmf); return 0; } } else -- 2.40.1