mm: lock newly mapped VMA which can be modified after it becomes visible
mmap_region adds a newly created VMA into VMA tree and might modify it afterwards before dropping the mmap_lock. This poses a problem for page faults handled under per-VMA locks because they don't take the mmap_lock and can stumble on this VMA while it's still being modified. Currently this does not pose a problem since post-addition modifications are done only for file-backed VMAs, which are not handled under per-VMA lock. However, once support for handling file-backed page faults with per-VMA locks is added, this will become a race. Fix this by write-locking the VMA before inserting it into the VMA tree. Other places where a new VMA is added into VMA tree do not modify it after the insertion, so do not need the same locking. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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