[RFC PATCH 11/28] mm/mmap: mark VMAs as locked before merging or splitting them

[Suren Baghdasaryan]

Decisions about whether VMAs can be merged or split must be made while
VMAs are protected from the changes which can affect that decision.
For example, merge_vma uses vma->anon_vma in its decision whether the
VMA can be merged. Meanwhile, page fault handler changes vma->anon_vma
during COW operation.
Mark all VMAs which might be affected by a merge or split operation as
locked before making decision how such operations should be performed.

Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>
---
 mm/mmap.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index ed58cf0689b2..ade3909c89b4 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1147,10 +1147,17 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vma_merge(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	if (vm_flags & VM_SPECIAL)
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (prev)
+		vma_mark_locked(prev);
 	next = vma_next(mm, prev);
 	area = next;
-	if (area && area->vm_end == end)		/* cases 6, 7, 8 */
+	if (area)
+		vma_mark_locked(area);
+	if (area && area->vm_end == end) {		/* cases 6, 7, 8 */
 		next = next->vm_next;
+		if (next)
+			vma_mark_locked(next);
+	}
 
 	/* verify some invariant that must be enforced by the caller */
 	VM_WARN_ON(prev && addr <= prev->vm_start);
@@ -2687,6 +2694,7 @@ int __split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	struct vm_area_struct *new;
 	int err;
 
+	vma_mark_locked(vma);
 	if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->may_split) {
 		err = vma->vm_ops->may_split(vma, addr);
 		if (err)
-- 
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