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| author | Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> | 2017-10-03 16:14:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-10-03 17:54:23 -0700 |
| commit | 4b22927f0cbd58303aac689e378d20bf56267a39 (patch) | |
| tree | c62d33d5689dda2c2f0bcb259f13e0c99dd89ada /README | |
| parent | fa87b91c94a8fd2c8502b6761be2d08a8e9bcf55 (diff) | |
ksm: fix unlocked iteration over vmas in cmp_and_merge_page()
In this place mm is unlocked, so vmas or list may change. Down read
mmap_sem to protect them from modifications.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150512788393.10691.8868381099691121308.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Fixes: e86c59b1b12d ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring")
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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