From 538f8ea6c85232d00bfa5edd9ba85f16c01057c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:09:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: xip fix fault vs sparse page invalidate race XIP has a race between sparse pages being inserted into page tables, and sparse pages being zapped when its time to put a non-sparse page in. What can happen is that a process can be left with a dangling sparse page in a MAP_SHARED mapping, while the rest of the world sees the non-sparse version. Ie. data corruption. Guard these operations with a seqlock, making fault-in-sparse-pages the slowpath, and try-to-unmap-sparse-pages the fastpath. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Jared Hulbert Acked-by: Carsten Otte Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed