Commit e4bd84c0 authored by Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)'s avatar Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm: Always downgrade mmap_lock if requested

Now that stack growth must always hold the mmap_lock for write, we can
always downgrade the mmap_lock to read and safely unmap pages from the
page table, even if we're next to a stack.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 03f88937
......@@ -2551,19 +2551,8 @@ do_vmi_align_munmap(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
/* Point of no return */
mm->locked_vm -= locked_vm;
mm->map_count -= count;
/*
* Do not downgrade mmap_lock if we are next to VM_GROWSDOWN or
* VM_GROWSUP VMA. Such VMAs can change their size under
* down_read(mmap_lock) and collide with the VMA we are about to unmap.
*/
if (downgrade) {
if (next && (next->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN))
downgrade = false;
else if (prev && (prev->vm_flags & VM_GROWSUP))
downgrade = false;
else
if (downgrade)
mmap_write_downgrade(mm);
}
/*
* We can free page tables without write-locking mmap_lock because VMAs
......
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