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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2016-10-07 17:01:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-07 18:46:29 -0700
commit6d2329f8872f23e46a19d240930571510ce525eb (patch)
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parent6213055f2c068b63078649457391ecea9b489ea3 (diff)
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mm: vm_page_prot: update with WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE
vma->vm_page_prot is read lockless from the rmap_walk, it may be updated concurrently and this prevents the risk of reading intermediate values. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474660305-19222-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Jan Vorlicek <janvorli@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mprotect.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index a4830f0325fe..063bbed22c7b 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ success:
* held in write mode.
*/
vma->vm_flags = newflags;
- dirty_accountable = vma_wants_writenotify(vma);
+ dirty_accountable = vma_wants_writenotify(vma, vma->vm_page_prot);
vma_set_page_prot(vma);
change_protection(vma, start, end, vma->vm_page_prot,