Commit 4b22927f authored by Kirill Tkhai's avatar Kirill Tkhai Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: e86c59b1 ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring")
Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrea 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent fa87b91c
......@@ -1990,6 +1990,7 @@ static void stable_tree_append(struct rmap_item *rmap_item,
*/
static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm;
struct rmap_item *tree_rmap_item;
struct page *tree_page = NULL;
struct stable_node *stable_node;
......@@ -2062,9 +2063,11 @@ static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
if (ksm_use_zero_pages && (checksum == zero_checksum)) {
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
vma = find_mergeable_vma(rmap_item->mm, rmap_item->address);
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, rmap_item->address);
err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page,
ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address));
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
/*
* In case of failure, the page was not really empty, so we
* need to continue. Otherwise we're done.
......
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