In copy_pte_range(), we may modify the src_pte entry after holding the src_ptl, so convert it to using pte_offset_map_maywrite_nolock(). But since we already hold the write lock of mmap_lock, there is no need to get pmdval to do pmd_same() check, just pass NULL to pmdvalp parameter. Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index d3378e98faf13..3016b3bf0c3b0 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1083,6 +1083,7 @@ copy_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma, struct mm_struct *src_mm = src_vma->vm_mm; pte_t *orig_src_pte, *orig_dst_pte; pte_t *src_pte, *dst_pte; + pmd_t pmdval; pte_t ptent; spinlock_t *src_ptl, *dst_ptl; int progress, max_nr, ret = 0; @@ -1108,7 +1109,8 @@ copy_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma, ret = -ENOMEM; goto out; } - src_pte = pte_offset_map_nolock(src_mm, src_pmd, addr, &src_ptl); + src_pte = pte_offset_map_maywrite_nolock(src_mm, src_pmd, addr, NULL, + &src_ptl); if (!src_pte) { pte_unmap_unlock(dst_pte, dst_ptl); /* ret == 0 */ -- 2.20.1