From c3704ceb4ad055b489b143f4e37c57d128908012 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:43:00 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] page_mkwrite caller race fix After do_wp_page has tested page_mkwrite, it must release old_page after acquiring page table lock, not before: at some stage that ordering got reversed, leaving a (very unlikely) window in which old_page might be truncated, freed, and reused in the same position. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed