hugetlb: acquire the i_mmap_lock before walking the prio_tree to unmap a page
authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:59:53 +0000 (17:59 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:53:23 +0000 (08:53 -0800)
When the owner of a mapping fails COW because a child process is holding a
reference, the children VMAs are walked and the page is unmapped.  The
i_mmap_lock is taken for the unmapping of the page but not the walking of
the prio_tree.  In theory, that tree could be changing if the lock is not
held.  This patch takes the i_mmap_lock properly for the duration of the
prio_tree walk.

[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: Spotted the problem in the first place]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/hugetlb.c

index 2ef66a2..6df8065 100644 (file)
@@ -2237,6 +2237,12 @@ static int unmap_ref_private(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                + (vma->vm_pgoff >> PAGE_SHIFT);
        mapping = (struct address_space *)page_private(page);
 
+       /*
+        * Take the mapping lock for the duration of the table walk. As
+        * this mapping should be shared between all the VMAs,
+        * __unmap_hugepage_range() is called as the lock is already held
+        */
+       spin_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
        vma_prio_tree_foreach(iter_vma, &iter, &mapping->i_mmap, pgoff, pgoff) {
                /* Do not unmap the current VMA */
                if (iter_vma == vma)
@@ -2250,10 +2256,11 @@ static int unmap_ref_private(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                 * from the time of fork. This would look like data corruption
                 */
                if (!is_vma_resv_set(iter_vma, HPAGE_RESV_OWNER))
-                       unmap_hugepage_range(iter_vma,
+                       __unmap_hugepage_range(iter_vma,
                                address, address + huge_page_size(h),
                                page);
        }
+       spin_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
 
        return 1;
 }