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| author | Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> | 2016-10-07 17:01:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-07 18:46:29 -0700 |
| commit | 6d2329f8872f23e46a19d240930571510ce525eb (patch) | |
| tree | 598cc5a8d764aa497570b359fc1328be5fa105cc /mm/mprotect.c | |
| parent | 6213055f2c068b63078649457391ecea9b489ea3 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6d2329f8872f23e46a19d240930571510ce525eb.tar.gz lwn-6d2329f8872f23e46a19d240930571510ce525eb.zip | |
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')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mprotect.c | 2 |
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, |