The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: fall back to mmap_lock if vma->anon_vma is not yet set
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-fall-back-to-mmap_lock-if-vma-anon_vma-is-not-yet-set.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: fall back to mmap_lock if vma->anon_vma is not yet set
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:36:23 -0800
When vma->anon_vma is not set, page fault handler will set it by either
reusing anon_vma of an adjacent VMA if VMAs are compatible or by
allocating a new one. find_mergeable_anon_vma() walks VMA tree to find a
compatible adjacent VMA and that requires not only the faulting VMA to be
stable but also the tree structure and other VMAs inside that tree.
Therefore locking just the faulting VMA is not enough for this search.
Fall back to taking mmap_lock when vma->anon_vma is not set. This
situation happens only on the first page fault and should not affect
overall performance.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-25-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-fall-back-to-mmap_lock-if-vma-anon_vma-is-not-yet-set
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -5254,6 +5254,10 @@ retry:
if (!vma_is_anonymous(vma))
goto inval;
+ /* find_mergeable_anon_vma uses adjacent vmas which are not locked */
+ if (!vma->anon_vma)
+ goto inval;
+
if (!vma_start_read(vma))
goto inval;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from surenb@xxxxxxxxxx are
