The patch titled hugetlb: acquire the i_mmap_lock before walking the prio_tree to unmap a page has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was hugetlb-acquire-the-i_mmap_lock-before-walking-the-prio_tree-to-unmap-a-page-v2.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: hugetlb: acquire the i_mmap_lock before walking the prio_tree to unmap a page From: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> When the owner of a mapping fails COW because a child process is holding a reference, the children VMAs are walked and the page is unmapped. The i_mmap_lock is taken for the unmapping of the page but not the walking of the prio_tree. In theory, that tree could be changing if the lock is not held. This patch takes the i_mmap_lock properly for the duration of the prio_tree walk. [hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: Spotted the problem in the first place] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-acquire-the-i_mmap_lock-before-walking-the-prio_tree-to-unmap-a-page-v2 mm/hugetlb.c --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-acquire-the-i_mmap_lock-before-walking-the-prio_tree-to-unmap-a-page-v2 +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -2237,6 +2237,12 @@ static int unmap_ref_private(struct mm_s + (vma->vm_pgoff >> PAGE_SHIFT); mapping = (struct address_space *)page_private(page); + /* + * Take the mapping lock for the duration of the table walk. As + * this mapping should be shared between all the VMAs, + * __unmap_hugepage_range() is called as the lock is already held + */ + spin_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock); vma_prio_tree_foreach(iter_vma, &iter, &mapping->i_mmap, pgoff, pgoff) { /* Do not unmap the current VMA */ if (iter_vma == vma) @@ -2250,10 +2256,11 @@ static int unmap_ref_private(struct mm_s * from the time of fork. This would look like data corruption */ if (!is_vma_resv_set(iter_vma, HPAGE_RESV_OWNER)) - unmap_hugepage_range(iter_vma, + __unmap_hugepage_range(iter_vma, address, address + huge_page_size(h), page); } + spin_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock); return 1; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mel@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch mm-add-notifier-in-pageblock-isolation-for-balloon-drivers.patch powerpc-make-the-cmm-memory-hotplug-aware.patch powerpc-make-the-cmm-memory-hotplug-aware-update.patch mm-warn-once-when-a-page-is-freed-with-pg_mlocked-set.patch add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html