This change fixes an anon_vma locking issue in the following situation: - vma has no anon_vma - next has an anon_vma - vma is being shrunk / next is being expanded, due to an mprotect call We need to take next's anon_vma lock to avoid races with rmap users (such as page migration) while next is being expanded. This change also removes an optimization which avoided taking anon_vma lock during brk adjustments. We could probably make that optimization work again, but the following anon rmap change would break it, so I kept things as simple as possible here. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 14 ++++++-------- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index cebc346ba0db..5e64c7dfc090 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -570,14 +570,12 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end); vma_adjust_trans_huge(vma, start, end, adjust_next); - /* - * When changing only vma->vm_end, we don't really need anon_vma - * lock. This is a fairly rare case by itself, but the anon_vma - * lock may be shared between many sibling processes. Skipping - * the lock for brk adjustments makes a difference sometimes. - */ - if (vma->anon_vma && (importer || start != vma->vm_start)) { - anon_vma = vma->anon_vma; + anon_vma = vma->anon_vma; + if (!anon_vma && adjust_next) + anon_vma = next->anon_vma; + if (anon_vma) { + VM_BUG_ON(adjust_next && next->anon_vma && + anon_vma != next->anon_vma); anon_vma_lock(anon_vma); } -- 1.7.7.3 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>