On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 12:53 PM Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
<willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If the page is not currently present in the page tables, we need to call
> the page fault handler to find out which page we're supposed to COW,
> so we need to both check that there is already an anon_vma and that the
> fault handler doesn't need the mmap_lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memory.c | 12 +++++-------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index a9b0c135209a..938f481df0ab 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -4639,13 +4639,11 @@ static vm_fault_t do_cow_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
> vm_fault_t ret;
>
> - if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) {
> - vma_end_read(vma);
> - return VM_FAULT_RETRY;
> - }
> -
> - if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
> - return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> + ret = vmf_can_call_fault(vmf);
> + if (!ret)
> + ret = vmf_anon_prepare(vmf);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
>
> vmf->cow_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma, vmf->address);
> if (!vmf->cow_page)
> --
> 2.40.1
>
