[PATCH 21/41] mm/mmap: write-lock VMAs affected by VMA expansion

Suren Baghdasaryan surenb at google.com
Mon Jan 9 12:53:16 PST 2023


vma_expand changes VMA boundaries and might result in freeing an adjacent
VMA. Write-lock affected VMAs to prevent concurrent page faults.

Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>
---
 mm/mmap.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 1e2154137631..ff02cb51e7e7 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -544,6 +544,7 @@ inline int vma_expand(struct ma_state *mas, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (mas_preallocate(mas, vma, GFP_KERNEL))
 		goto nomem;
 
+	vma_write_lock(vma);
 	vma_adjust_trans_huge(vma, start, end, 0);
 
 	if (file) {
@@ -590,6 +591,7 @@ inline int vma_expand(struct ma_state *mas, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	}
 
 	if (remove_next) {
+		vma_write_lock(next);
 		if (file) {
 			uprobe_munmap(next, next->vm_start, next->vm_end);
 			fput(file);
-- 
2.39.0




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