Just a heads up. Ajay Kaher has noticed that mlx4 driver is missing the check in 4.14 [1] and 4.4 seems to have the same problem. I will wait for more review before reposting v3. The incremental diff is: diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c index 67c4c73343d4..6968154a073e 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c @@ -1042,6 +1042,8 @@ static void mlx4_ib_disassociate_ucontext(struct ib_ucontext *ibcontext) * mlx4_ib_vma_close(). */ down_write(&owning_mm->mmap_sem); + if (!mmget_still_valid(owning_mm)) + goto skip_mm; for (i = 0; i < HW_BAR_COUNT; i++) { vma = context->hw_bar_info[i].vma; if (!vma) @@ -1061,6 +1063,7 @@ static void mlx4_ib_disassociate_ucontext(struct ib_ucontext *ibcontext) context->hw_bar_info[i].vma->vm_ops = NULL; } +skip_mm: up_write(&owning_mm->mmap_sem); mmput(owning_mm); put_task_struct(owning_process); -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs