From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] fix missing unlock_page in mm/rmap.c
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 20:53:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <414C1390.6050802@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
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Please apply.
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A required unlock_page will be missed in a very rare (but possible) race
condition. Acked by Hugh, who says:
It'll be hard to hit because of the additional page_mapped test above,
with truncate unmapping ptes from mms before it advances to removing
pages from cache; but nothing to prevent it happening.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
---
linux-2.6-npiggin/mm/rmap.c | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/rmap.c~mm-rmap-missing-unlock mm/rmap.c
--- linux-2.6/mm/rmap.c~mm-rmap-missing-unlock 2004-09-18 20:46:16.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.6-npiggin/mm/rmap.c 2004-09-18 20:46:41.000000000 +1000
@@ -406,8 +406,9 @@ int page_referenced(struct page *page, i
referenced += page_referenced_file(page);
else if (TestSetPageLocked(page))
referenced++;
- else if (page->mapping) {
- referenced += page_referenced_file(page);
+ else {
+ if (page->mapping)
+ referenced += page_referenced_file(page);
unlock_page(page);
}
}
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next reply other threads:[~2004-09-18 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-18 10:53 Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-09-18 11:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
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